From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2012 20:37:18 GMT
Subject: Re: Inconsistency in specifying commit & path for git diff
Message-ID: <m2391n8jr5.fsf@igel.home>
In-Reply-To: <50747E48.3060203@gmail.com>

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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