From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 02 Nov 2011 09:35:59 GMT
Subject: Re: Q: "git diff" using tag names
Message-ID: <7vty6mkgsg.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20111102132945.582707aa@ashu.dyn.rarus.ru>

Alexey Shumkin <alex.crezoff@gmail.com> writes:

>> Also it seems that both syntaxes work:
>> git diff v0.4..v0.5
>> git diff v0.4 v0.5
> honestly, I do not know the difference (at the moment :))
> may be gurus or manual will help to discover it

The latter is the kosher version, as diff is about two "endpoints" and not
about "ranges". The only reason the former is parsed without erroring out
is because too many people are used to type .. between two things without
thinking, learned the notation from "git log", which _is_ about ranges.