From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2011 15:44:57 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] warn use of "git diff A..B"
Message-ID: <m3tyesv7zh.fsf@localhost.localdomain>
In-Reply-To: <7vei5xcxzm.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

> "git diff" (and "diff-tree") accepts a range notation "A..B" from the
> command line to specify the two endpoints to be compared; the right way to
> spell this would be "git diff A B".  This is merely a historical accident
> that comes from the fact that "git log" family of commands and "git diff"
> happens to share some code in their command line parsers.

I think it is quite useful to acept this notation to allow for
copy'n'paste from e.g. "git fetch" output:

     5e839c8..cd3065f  master     -> origin

On can simply paste "git diff 5e839c8..cd3065f".
                              ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
-- 
Jakub Narebski
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