From: Jay Soffian Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2010 19:36:51 GMT Subject: Re: potential improvement to 'git log' with a range Message-ID: In-Reply-To: On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 9:20 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote: > To make things even more exciting triple-dot, "A...B" has two different > meanings too, again one that is about sets ("symmetric difference") for > the log-based ones, and one that is a somewhat badly defined range for the > diff based ones (where the end-points are "one common nearest ancestor of > A and B" and "B" respectively). > > It's all actually very natural when you get used to it, although that > "A...B" as a range really isn't well-defined, since there can be more than > one common nearest ancestors. It's still often enough useful in practice > that I wouldn't get rid of it, but it's not the greatest feature. Speaking of which, I'd love a switch to "git show $merge_commit" which does "git log $merge_commit^..$merge_commit^2" but I've been too lazy to write it. 9/10 times that I use .., it's in this context. :-) j.