Re: Deprecating git diff ..; dealing with other ranges

From: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Date: Mar 12, 2019, 21:01 UTC
Message-ID: <87wol3bydp.fsf@evledraar.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <87va0orop4.fsf@igel.home>

On Tue, Mar 12 2019, Andreas Schwab wrote:

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> On Mär 12 2019, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>
>> I however think it may be worth making sure that our docs do not
>> encourage "diff A..B" and teach "diff A B" when comparing two
>> endpoints.  That can be done without changing anything in the code.
>
> The nice thing about "diff A..B" is that you can c&p the output from the
> fetch run without the need to edit it.

Not to shoot down this effort, just to add another similar thing I do regularly for ff-branches:

 1. Copy/paste A..B fetch output
 2. git log A..B
 3. ^log^diff

I.e. I just need to tell my terminal to re-run the same "log" command with "diff" instead of "log".

Of course as covered in the linked thread it doesn't work for some (non-ff) cases, and I'll sometimes end up cursing it and swapping around ".." for "..." with log/diff.