From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2012 18:11:14 GMT
Subject: Re: Incorrect man page for git-diff
Message-ID: <7vwqwffcxp.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <50D0AA78.5090603@gmail.com>

Manlio Perillo <manlio.perillo@gmail.com> writes:

> Documentation seems to suggest this is supported, but it is not true:
>
>   $ git diff HEAD:git.c HEAD~100:git.c -- git.c
>   usage: git diff [<options>] [<commit> [<commit>]] [--] [<path>...]
>
> unless I'm missing something.

Neither HEAD:git.c nor HEAD~100:git.c are commits.  You are
comparing two blob objects in their raw forms without textconv nor
filter.