Re: [PATCH v2 02/18] Add a new builtin: branch-diff
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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
- Date
- May 7, 2018, 15:12 UTC
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Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
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> It would be easy to introduce, but I am wary about its usefulness. > Unless you re-generate the branch from patches (which I guess you do a > lot, but I don't), you are likely to compare incomplete patch series: say, > when you call `git rebase -i` to reword 05/18's commit message, your > command will only compare 05--18 of the patch series.
Well that is exactly the point of that "..@{1} @{1}..", which turned out to be very useful in practice at least for me when I am updating a topic with "rebase -i", and then reviewing what I did with tbdiff.
I do not want 01-04 in the above case as I already know I did not touch them.