Re: Highly inconsistent diff UI

From: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Date: Apr 24, 2013, 20:14 UTC
Message-ID: <CALkWK0m5m4maMKYfyV=rr4TWDK1FZQXXwT=cPeGoMtx6+chJsw@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vli87bsu3.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Yeah, I am not strongly opposed to have something like that, and
> having a shorter (but not a single letter) option name might make it
> more attractive than A...B at least to new users.

I'm not married to the single character or tilde. What I'm saying is that we should make it a rev spec, not a command-line option.

> Which by the way is nothing new.  "A" means the entire history
> leading to the commit "A" in the context of specifying a range, and
> the same "A" means a single commit "A" in the context of specifying
> a revision.

Exactly. And I'm introducing a third context: "when specifying two trees to diff". Changing meaning in different contexts is not a problem, as long as it is consistent and properly documented.