[BUG] "git range-diff" does not know X^! is a valid range
- From
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
- Date
- Apr 2, 2024, 17:45 UTC
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- <xmqq7chf64l1.fsf@gitster.g>
When cherry-picking an existing commit X to a different base, which may have resulted in conflicts that needed a fix-up, you would want to be able to compare X~1..X and HEAD~1..HEAD and naturally, we would expect "range-diff" to have a handy way to allow giving the command without having to type the overly long branch name X twice.
Individual "diff" for these two ranges are easy to obtain without repeating X:
$ git diff X^!
$ git diff HEAD^!The "git range-diff" however does not understand that X^! is a valid range X~1..X. This command throws an error and ...
$ git range-diff refs/merge-fix/ew/khash-to-khashl^! HEAD^!
fatal: need two commit ranges... to add insult to injury, it shows the huge "git range-diff -h" output after that.
Any takers?