From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2011 20:03:11 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] warn use of "git diff A..B"
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On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 22:45, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> "git diff" (and "diff-tree") accepts a range notation "A..B" from the
> command line to specify the two endpoints to be compared; the right way to
> spell this would be "git diff A B".  This is merely a historical accident
> that comes from the fact that "git log" family of commands and "git diff"
> happens to share some code in their command line parsers.
>
> It was fine for people who are used to seeing "git diff A..B" and silently
> translating it to "git diff A B" in their head, but it made things hard
> for new people.  It is easy to mistakenly think that "git diff A..B" has
> some similarity with "git log A..B" (there isn't).

I like the dot-dot notation a lot.