From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2006 06:16:36 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] annotate: Support annotation of files on other revisions.
Message-ID: <7vpsl0ayij.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <20060306055036.GB26820@spearce.org>

Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> writes:

> 	git-diff Makefile
> 	git-diff HEAD Makefile
>
> ?  (Which is rather ugly as what if you have a tracked file actually
> called HEAD and you want the first form when the commit-ish is
> omitted.)  So accepting an optional commit-ish before the filename
> would be in line with what git-diff accepts today.

The use of "start of filelist" marker "--" is optional when
unambiguous, and that is why "git-diff Makefile" works.  To view
the change you still haven't update-index'ed to the path called
"HEAD", you would naturally say "git-diff -- HEAD"