From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] warn use of "git diff A..B"
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2011 08:44:57 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3tyesv7zh.fsf@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vei5xcxzm.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
> "git diff" (and "diff-tree") accepts a range notation "A..B" from the
> command line to specify the two endpoints to be compared; the right way to
> spell this would be "git diff A B". This is merely a historical accident
> that comes from the fact that "git log" family of commands and "git diff"
> happens to share some code in their command line parsers.
I think it is quite useful to acept this notation to allow for
copy'n'paste from e.g. "git fetch" output:
5e839c8..cd3065f master -> origin
On can simply paste "git diff 5e839c8..cd3065f".
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
--
Jakub Narebski
Poland
ShadeHawk on #git
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-03-24 15:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-03-23 21:36 [PATCH] diff: remove dead code that flips arguments order Junio C Hamano
2011-03-23 21:45 ` [PATCH] warn use of "git diff A..B" Junio C Hamano
2011-03-24 15:44 ` Jakub Narebski [this message]
2011-03-25 8:27 ` Johannes Sixt
2011-03-24 18:11 ` Jay Soffian
2011-03-24 18:16 ` Jay Soffian
2011-03-24 18:33 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-03-25 9:06 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2011-03-27 20:03 ` Alex Riesen
2011-03-28 16:53 ` Junio C Hamano
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