From: Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] warn use of "git diff A..B"
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2011 14:16:28 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTiknZiZbEedOgJwRqwN_9APb2x_9opOFsXYe8cWJ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikjN_90UApfD2rRksDk8qXyE6pJHhd00Aw-Qe7Y@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 2:11 PM, Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com> wrote:
> Also, the fact that a one-sided '..' implies HEAD on the other side
Sorry, stray sentence. Ignore it.
But also, context matters. I don't get confused that Perl has a ".."
operator which can be both a range operator and a flip-flop operator.
Of all the things that git overloads (reset, checkout, ...), this
seems the least confusing to explain.
$0.03. :-)
j.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-03-24 18:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-03-23 21:36 [PATCH] diff: remove dead code that flips arguments order Junio C Hamano
2011-03-23 21:45 ` [PATCH] warn use of "git diff A..B" Junio C Hamano
2011-03-24 15:44 ` Jakub Narebski
2011-03-25 8:27 ` Johannes Sixt
2011-03-24 18:11 ` Jay Soffian
2011-03-24 18:16 ` Jay Soffian [this message]
2011-03-24 18:33 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-03-25 9:06 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2011-03-27 20:03 ` Alex Riesen
2011-03-28 16:53 ` Junio C Hamano
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