Re: [PATCH] BreakingChanges: say that `git diff X..Y` syntax will be removed in 3.0

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Oct 16, 2025, 16:56 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqy0pa7pkn.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqh5vz7ygc.fsf@gitster.g>

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

> I do not think X..Y (or X...Y), if accepted by commands, would never
> change their meanings in the middle of the commands' lives.

Sorry, double-negation bites again. Please drop "not" from "I do not think" when you are reading the above.

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> Teaching "git diff" to complain and barf on X..Y is a possibility,
> but to do the same for X...Y, we would need to come up with an
> alternative syntax first.
>
> The same for "git checkout master..."  that detaches HEAD at the
> fork point of the current topic (so that I can "git am" in a new
> iteration of patches on top).  As the syntax "git diff master..."
> is symmetric with it, if one were to change, both should change to
> the same.
>
> Thanks.