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Re: generating combined diff without an existing merge commit

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Jacob Keller <jacob.keller@gmail.com>
Date
Oct 21, 2016, 22:54 UTC
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On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 3:41 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
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> Jacob Keller <jacob.keller@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Turns out that somehow I must have messed up my command because "git
>> diff <treeish> <treeish> <treeish>" does indeed do exactly what I
>> want.
>
> Thanks.  I was wondering why it didn't work for you, as the feature
> was done exactly to support that use case ;-)

I'm not really sure. It kept spitting out usage information to me, but then I tried again with a fresh example and it worked as expected.

Thanks, Jake

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  2. Jacob KellerOct 21, 2016
  3. Junio C HamanoOct 21, 2016
  4. Jacob KellerOct 21, 2016
  5. Documentation/git-diff: document git diff with 3+ commitsMichael J Gruber, Oct 26, 2016
  6. Junio C HamanoOct 26, 2016
  7. Michael J GruberOct 27, 2016
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