From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michael Haggerty Subject: Re: Fwd: [RFC/FR] Should "git checkout (-B|-b) branch master...branch" work? Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2012 22:59:44 +0100 Message-ID: <50D4DBD0.7050601@alum.mit.edu> References: <7v8v8r2y8s.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <7vr4mj1g8j.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <50D4BBDC.6030700@alum.mit.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Junio C Hamano , git@vger.kernel.org To: Martin von Zweigbergk X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Dec 21 23:00:07 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TmAdR-0008AY-Oi for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Fri, 21 Dec 2012 23:00:06 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752232Ab2LUV7t (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Dec 2012 16:59:49 -0500 Received: from ALUM-MAILSEC-SCANNER-2.MIT.EDU ([18.7.68.13]:45617 "EHLO alum-mailsec-scanner-2.mit.edu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752010Ab2LUV7r (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Dec 2012 16:59:47 -0500 X-AuditID: 1207440d-b7f306d0000008b7-b2-50d4dbd26370 Received: from outgoing-alum.mit.edu (OUTGOING-ALUM.MIT.EDU [18.7.68.33]) by alum-mailsec-scanner-2.mit.edu (Symantec Messaging Gateway) with SMTP id 17.94.02231.2DBD4D05; Fri, 21 Dec 2012 16:59:46 -0500 (EST) Received: from [192.168.101.152] (ssh.berlin.jpk.com [212.222.128.135]) (authenticated bits=0) (User authenticated as mhagger@ALUM.MIT.EDU) by outgoing-alum.mit.edu (8.13.8/8.12.4) with ESMTP id qBLLxjHd001190 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Fri, 21 Dec 2012 16:59:46 -0500 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/17.0 Thunderbird/17.0 In-Reply-To: X-Brightmail-Tracker: H4sIAAAAAAAAA+NgFprJKsWRmVeSWpSXmKPExsUixO6iqHvp9pUAgy3vrSy6rnQzWTT0XmG2 6PzYxuLA7LFz1l12j4uXlD0+b5ILYI7itklKLCkLzkzP07dL4M549fQVU8Fu9or22Y4NjO9Y uxg5OSQETCSmzX0CZYtJXLi3nq2LkYtDSOAyo8SJJR+hnONMEufm7gOr4hXQlth49TgziM0i oCpx4+QUNhCbTUBXYlFPMxOILSoQILF4yTl2iHpBiZMzn7CA2CICBhK3bt4Cm8MsYC2x4vVh oHoODmGBcIlLm11BwkIC55gkvn+1BrE5BQIlulZ1gpUwC6hLrJ8nBNEpL7H97RzmCYwCs5As mIVQNQtJ1QJG5lWMcok5pbm6uYmZOcWpybrFyYl5ealFukZ6uZkleqkppZsYIUHLu4Px/zqZ Q4wCHIxKPLxarVcChFgTy4orcw8xSnIwKYnyel0DCvEl5adUZiQWZ8QXleakFh9ilOBgVhLh 9Z8HlONNSaysSi3Kh0lJc7AoifOqLVH3ExJITyxJzU5NLUgtgsnKcHAoSfAm3wJqFCxKTU+t SMvMKUFIM3FwggznkhIpTs1LSS1KLC3JiAfFaHwxMEpBUjxAextA2nmLCxJzgaIQracYdTlu Ndx8yijEkpeflyolzlsLUiQAUpRRmge3ApaiXjGKA30szLscpIoHmN7gJr0CWsIEtERECWxJ SSJCSqqBMSAle1agsenj2YrH09pWiRdVxRz2OviF7dnNrEVbPpr/7J8a+Id94VKTTYqlTgwN 7CKmOxv52dSFVNbrquq9CAp93SF16ZJFcqrN55na9w7xXcmxrWfa7NjJdtGXqeb8 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On 12/21/2012 10:31 PM, Martin von Zweigbergk wrote: > On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 11:43 AM, Michael Haggerty wrote: >> On 12/21/2012 06:12 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote: >>> side note: incidentally, now we have rev_cmdline_info support, >>> we could start deprecating "diff A..B" syntax. >> >> I often find myself using "git diff A..B" syntax when using the command >> line history because the previous command used "A..B"; e.g., >> >> git log A..B >> git diff A..B > > The problem with this, to me, if it wasn't clear, is that "git log > A..B" shows you is new _since B branched off from A_, while "git diff > A..B" shows you what has changed _between A and B_. You are quite right, of course, though in many useful cases they are the same. But I guess I should just buck myself up for the new orthodoxy :-) Michael -- Michael Haggerty mhagger@alum.mit.edu http://softwareswirl.blogspot.com/