Re: [PATCH 3/5] git-diff.txt: group the [--] and [<path>...] templates

From: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Date: Apr 24, 2013, 18:53 UTC
Message-ID: <CALkWK0nN+9XOTCqiY+yB9moQSvFFpSO=OZjJtLphBd2eQ24uDw@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vbo93db25.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> The same logic would apply to this semi-nonsense rewrite, no?
>
>         git diff [[options] [--]] [<path>...]
>
> Everything else comes before "--" (if exists) that separates it from
> the list of pathspecs.

Yeah, except it's sometimes

    [[options] [revision range] [--]] [<path>...]

and other times

    [[options] [<commit>...] [--]] [<path>...]

and yet other times

    [[options] [--]] [<path>...]

Whereas mine is always

    ... [[--] [<path>]]

(everywhere in git)

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