From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
To: Arthur Etchells <adetchells@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Inconsistency in specifying commit & path for git diff
Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2012 22:37:18 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2391n8jr5.fsf@igel.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <50747E48.3060203@gmail.com> (Arthur Etchells's message of "Tue, 09 Oct 2012 15:43:04 -0400")
Arthur Etchells <adetchells@gmail.com> writes:
> git diff <commit>:<path>..<commit>:<path>
<commit>:<path> represents a tree or blob, but .. requires commits as
its end points.
(You can dereference a commit to get a tree or blob, but not the other
way round.)
Andreas.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-10-09 20:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-10-09 19:43 Inconsistency in specifying commit & path for git diff Arthur Etchells
2012-10-09 20:37 ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
2012-10-09 21:03 ` Junio C Hamano
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