From: Ramkumar Ramachandra Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2013 18:23:04 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/5] git-diff.txt: group the [--] and [...] templates Message-ID: 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 [...] from [everything else].