From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
To: Lars Schneider <larsxschneider@gmail.com>
Cc: GIT Mailing-list <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Three dot notion used inconsitent?
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2015 18:49:01 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87lh9vp59u.fsf@igel.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1CDF2D38-B73A-4C49-BC10-1F3BA1873733@gmail.com> (Lars Schneider's message of "Wed, 18 Nov 2015 11:31:17 +0100")
Lars Schneider <larsxschneider@gmail.com> writes:
> git diff branchA...branchB
> --> gives me the diff between (the common ancestor of A and B) and B. That means I never see changes on branchA.
>
> git log branchA...branchB
> --> gives me the commits reachable from A and B. That includes changes from branchA.
>
> Is this because of a design decision that I do not (yet) understand or is this inconsistent for historical reasons?
git diff operates on two revisions. That is inherently incompatible
with the usual meaning of A...B and A..B, which are set operations on
the revision history. That git diff accepts this syntax is only for
convenience.
Andreas.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-11-18 17:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-11-18 10:31 Three dot notion used inconsitent? Lars Schneider
2015-11-18 11:02 ` Johannes Löthberg
2015-11-18 17:49 ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
2015-11-20 9:53 ` Michael J Gruber
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