Re: [PATCH 3/5] git-diff.txt: group the [--] and [<path>...] templates

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Apr 24, 2013, 18:20 UTC
Message-ID: <7vtxmvdc4d.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <1366821216-20868-4-git-send-email-artagnon@gmail.com>

Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com> writes:

> -'git diff' [options] [--] [<path>...]::
> +'git diff' [options] [[--] [<path>...]]::

You can say

    "git diff A B --" without any path
    "git diff A B pathspec" without any double-dashes
    "git diff -- pathspec"

and all three of them are expressed by versions before or after the patch, so there is no change in the semantics introduced by this patch.

While the update might be logically more correct, it looks to me that the only end-user visibile effect of it is to make the end result harder to read.

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