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([2a0a:ef40:69a:b801:201a:26ab:8d41:fb43]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id 5b1f17b1804b1-4926c02088dsm42534285e9.0.2026.06.26.06.12.46 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Fri, 26 Jun 2026 06:12:46 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4654a3f1-bf79-4c3f-b121-16bb3ab25f07@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2026 14:12:41 +0100 Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Reply-To: phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 0/4] history: add squash subcommand to fold a range To: Harald Nordgren , phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk Cc: Harald Nordgren via GitGitGadget , git@vger.kernel.org, Patrick Steinhardt References: From: Phillip Wood Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit On 26/06/2026 10:57, Harald Nordgren wrote: > On Fri, Jun 26, 2026 at 10:53 AM Phillip Wood wrote:>> >> Only accepting a single argument is quite limiting as one >> cannot say >> >> git history squash ^:/base :/tip > > I don't understand why this is limiting? It thought it was clear that > it should be one argument REF1..REF2 ? What does '^:/base :/tip' > achieve that '^:/base..:/tip' cannot? '^/:base..:/tip' is not a range - everything after the first '/:' is treated as a regular expression to search for. Thanks Phillip