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Subject: Re: [PATCH] warn use of "git diff A..B"
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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.