From: Alexey Shumkin <alex.crezoff@gmail.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: "Ulrich Windl" <Ulrich.Windl@rz.uni-regensburg.de>,
<git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Q: "git diff" using tag names
Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2011 00:08:46 +0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111103000846.784cba29@zappedws> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vty6mkgsg.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
Oh, I see
> Alexey Shumkin <alex.crezoff@gmail.com> writes:
>
> >> Also it seems that both syntaxes work:
> >> git diff v0.4..v0.5
> >> git diff v0.4 v0.5
> > honestly, I do not know the difference (at the moment :))
> > may be gurus or manual will help to discover it
>
> The latter is the kosher version, as diff is about two "endpoints"
> and not about "ranges". The only reason the former is parsed without
> erroring out is because too many people are used to type .. between
> two things without thinking, learned the notation from "git log",
> which _is_ about ranges.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-11-02 20:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-10-28 12:28 Q: "git diff" using tag names Ulrich Windl
2011-10-28 12:59 ` Alexey Shumkin
2011-11-02 7:31 ` Antw: " Ulrich Windl
2011-11-02 9:29 ` Alexey Shumkin
2011-11-02 9:34 ` Frans Klaver
2011-11-02 20:08 ` Alexey Shumkin
2011-11-02 9:35 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-11-02 20:08 ` Alexey Shumkin [this message]
2011-10-28 13:21 ` Jakub Narebski
2011-11-02 7:35 ` Antw: " Ulrich Windl
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