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Re: Inconsistency in specifying commit & path for git diff

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Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Date
Oct 9, 2012, 20:37 UTC
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Arthur Etchells <adetchells@gmail.com> writes:
> git diff <commit>:<path>..<commit>:<path>

<commit>:<path> represents a tree or blob, but .. requires commits as its end points.

(You can dereference a commit to get a tree or blob, but not the other way round.)

Andreas.
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