From: "Štěpán Němec" <stepnem@gmail.com>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org, Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>,
Mark Lodato <lodatom@gmail.com>,
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] docs: clarify git diff modes of operation
Date: Thu, 04 Nov 2010 22:51:55 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <871v70hi4k.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101104211729.GA5551@sigill.intra.peff.net> (Jeff King's message of "Thu, 4 Nov 2010 17:17:29 -0400")
Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
> Note that in all versions (the original, yours, and mine) we gloss over
> the fact that <commit> can actually be any two objects (as long as they
> are bother either tree-ishs or blobs).
Yeah, I thought about that, too. I think it would be nice to use more
precise placeholders like <tree-ish> or <object> (which do already
occur in other places), but I suspect it might be needed/useful at more
places and would better be done as a separate patch (preferably by someone
who is more familiar with the internals than me).
> I'm not sure if it is worth documenting that subtlety here (at least
> the tree-ish thing gets mentioned later in the description; I'm not
> sure we ever document "git diff HEAD:Makefile HEAD^:Makefile"
> anywhere).
There's gitrevisions(7) (also pointed to from the git-diff manpage)
which describes those in some detail.
Štěpán
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-11-04 21:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-08 0:52 [PATCH/RFC] Unify argument and option notation in the docs Štěpán Němec
2010-10-08 7:43 ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-10-08 11:13 ` Štěpán Němec
2010-10-08 17:31 ` [PATCH 0/6] " Štěpán Němec
2010-10-08 17:44 ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-10-08 19:43 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-10-08 20:15 ` Štěpán Němec
2010-10-21 22:21 ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-10-24 15:51 ` [PATCH] CodingGuidelines: Add a section on writing documentation Štěpán Němec
2010-10-29 2:56 ` Mark Lodato
2010-10-29 11:54 ` Štěpán Němec
2010-10-29 17:14 ` Sverre Rabbelier
2010-11-01 17:00 ` Štěpán Němec
2010-11-04 17:12 ` [PATCH v2] " Štěpán Němec
2010-11-04 17:18 ` [PATCH] diff,difftool: Don't use the {0,2} notation in usage strings Štěpán Němec
2010-11-04 17:22 ` Sverre Rabbelier
2010-11-04 17:49 ` Jeff King
2010-11-04 18:02 ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-11-04 18:13 ` Jeff King
2010-11-04 18:38 ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-11-04 18:55 ` Jeff King
2010-11-04 20:26 ` Štěpán Němec
2010-11-04 20:43 ` Jeff King
2010-11-04 21:17 ` [PATCH] docs: clarify git diff modes of operation Jeff King
2010-11-04 21:50 ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-11-05 1:57 ` Mark Lodato
2010-11-04 21:51 ` Štěpán Němec [this message]
2010-11-04 21:30 ` [PATCH] diff,difftool: Don't use the {0,2} notation in usage strings Štěpán Němec
2010-10-08 17:31 ` [PATCH 1/6] Use angles for placeholders consistently Štěpán Němec
2010-10-08 17:31 ` [PATCH 2/6] Fix odd markup in --diff-filter documentation Štěpán Němec
2010-10-08 17:39 ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-10-08 17:57 ` Štěpán Němec
2010-10-08 18:03 ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-10-08 18:40 ` Štěpán Němec
2010-10-08 18:53 ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-10-08 17:31 ` [PATCH 3/6] Use parentheses and `...' where appropriate Štěpán Němec
2010-10-08 17:31 ` [PATCH 4/6] Remove stray quotes in --pretty and --format documentation Štěpán Němec
2010-10-08 17:31 ` [PATCH 5/6] Put a space between `<' and argument in pack-objects usage string Štěpán Němec
2010-10-08 17:31 ` [PATCH 6/6] Fix {update,checkout}-index usage strings Štěpán Němec
2010-10-08 16:45 ` [PATCH 0/2] pack-objects: use ALLOC_GROW in place of manual growth Jonathan Nieder
2010-10-08 16:46 ` [PATCH 1/2] Documentation: No argument of ALLOC_GROW should have side-effects Jonathan Nieder
2010-10-08 16:47 ` [PATCH 2/2] pack-objects: use ALLOC_GROW Jonathan Nieder
2010-10-08 17:02 ` [PATCH 3/2] Allow side-effects in second argument to ALLOC_GROW Jonathan Nieder
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