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From: Martin von Zweigbergk martinv...@gmail.com
Date: Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 8:45 AM
Subject: Re: [RFC/FR] Should git checkout (-B|-b) branch master...branch work?
To: Junio C Hamano gits...@pobox.com
On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at
Martin von Zweigbergk martinv...@gmail.com writes:
I keep forgetting what git diff A..B does.
diff is always about two endpoints, not the path that connects
these two endpoints (aka range), and when you want to diff
between two commits, you say diff A B. A..B happens to be
accepted as such
On 12/21/2012 06:12 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote:
diff is always about two endpoints, not the path that connects
these two endpoints (aka range), and when you want to diff
between two commits, you say diff A B. A..B happens to be
accepted as such only by accident (e.g. the old command line parser
Off topic: I also find it hard to wrap my head around what diffing
against a negative revision would mean. Looking at the result of
running it, it seems to be the same as diffing against a positive one.
That is not an off-topic at all, but is the crux of diff A..B being
a hysterical raisins.
On 12/21/2012 10:31 PM, Martin von Zweigbergk wrote:
On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 11:43 AM, Michael Haggerty mhag...@alum.mit.edu
wrote:
On 12/21/2012 06:12 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote:
side note: incidentally, now we have rev_cmdline_info support,
we could start deprecating diff A..B
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