Re: Confusion about diffing branches

[Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>]

On Sun, Aug 26, 2007 at 08:40:56PM -0500, Shawn Bohrer <shawn.bohrer@gmail.com> wrote:
> So if I understand you correctly people in the git world are simply more
> used to typing two dots (instead of three) so that is why the two dot
> notation shows the more common use case (show me the difference between
> the tip of the master branch and the tip of the topic branch).
> 
> I must admit that for me, a new git user, it would be much more
> intuitive if all git commands used the same syntax for specifying
> revisions.  After all every other git command that I have used so far
> uses the opposite syntax as git-diff.  This includes git-log,
> git-format-patch, gitk, git-rev-list, and git-rev-parse.

Similar experience here. It is even more a problem for newcomers when
you consider it isn't documented in either git-rev-parse or git-diff
manual pages.

Mike