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From: Alexey Shumkin <alex.crezoff@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Q: "git diff" using tag names
Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2011 00:08:46 +0400
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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.