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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Manlio Perillo <manlio.perillo@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Incorrect man page for git-diff
Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2012 10:11:14 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vwqwffcxp.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <50D0AA78.5090603@gmail.com> (Manlio Perillo's message of "Tue, 18 Dec 2012 18:40:08 +0100")

Manlio Perillo <manlio.perillo@gmail.com> writes:

> Documentation seems to suggest this is supported, but it is not true:
>
>   $ git diff HEAD:git.c HEAD~100:git.c -- git.c
>   usage: git diff [<options>] [<commit> [<commit>]] [--] [<path>...]
>
> unless I'm missing something.

Neither HEAD:git.c nor HEAD~100:git.c are commits.  You are
comparing two blob objects in their raw forms without textconv nor
filter.

  reply	other threads:[~2012-12-18 18:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-12-18 17:40 Incorrect man page for git-diff Manlio Perillo
2012-12-18 18:11 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2012-12-18 19:10   ` Manlio Perillo
2012-12-18 19:32     ` Junio C Hamano

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