From: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2011 09:06:11 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] warn use of "git diff A..B"
Message-ID: <AANLkTim4aQQgm290Z+OfHd7+oz8jQ_UfWQdxPdG_6k-H@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vei5xcxzm.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 22:45, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:

I agree with Jakub. I often write something like this:

    $ git log origin/master..origin/pu
    $ ^log^diff
    git diff origin/master..origin/pu

It would be annoying to have that start to warn.

> +       warning("Do not write 'git diff A..B' but write 'git diff A B'");
> +       warning("diff is about two endpoints!");

And in any case this warning is way too terse to give the user an idea
of what this is about.