From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Olivier Galibert Subject: Re: [PATCH] fmt-patch: understand old notation Date: Sun, 7 May 2006 01:19:01 +0200 Message-ID: <20060506231901.GB45996@dspnet.fr.eu.org> References: <7viroirfur.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Junio C Hamano , Johannes Schindelin , git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun May 07 01:19:12 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FcW3G-0007eV-Hq for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Sun, 07 May 2006 01:19:06 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751138AbWEFXTD (ORCPT ); Sat, 6 May 2006 19:19:03 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751140AbWEFXTD (ORCPT ); Sat, 6 May 2006 19:19:03 -0400 Received: from dspnet.fr.eu.org ([213.186.44.138]:27658 "EHLO dspnet.fr.eu.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751138AbWEFXTC (ORCPT ); Sat, 6 May 2006 19:19:02 -0400 Received: by dspnet.fr.eu.org (Postfix, from userid 1007) id 77EC3A3732; Sun, 7 May 2006 01:19:01 +0200 (CEST) To: Linus Torvalds Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Sat, May 06, 2006 at 03:30:38PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > Maybe not. I've actually cursed the fact that I made "git diff X" mean > "diff from X to current working tree", because it almost never makes any > sense at all when X is anything but "HEAD". > > I probably _should_ have made "git diff X" mean basically "git show X", > and not what it means now. Funny, when tracking other projects I use (sometimes path-filtered) "git diff origin" often, but I find "git show origin" utterly uninteresting. OG.