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

From: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Date: Apr 24, 2013, 18:23 UTC
Message-ID: <CALkWK0nU-iTSF2DnmJAB=kj6w+VFv3rQrixEnHz0vyXf2d2=Mw@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vtxmvdc4d.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano wrote:

> While the update might be logically more correct, it looks to me
> that the only end-user visibile effect of it is to make the end
> result harder to read.

Hm, I thought it improves readability. I'm trying to say that -- is used to separate [<path>...] from [everything else].

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