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From: John Szakmeister <john@szakmeister.net>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Annoyance] "git log .." thinks ".." is ambiguous
Date: Tue, 3 May 2011 04:38:52 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <BANLkTimZTV5bf2fNdeu4nEJkkJAdUSwupg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vr58glxro.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 3:15 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> Either end of revision range operator can be omitted to default to
> HEAD, as in "origin.." (what did I do since I forked) or "..origin" (what
> did they do since I forked).  But this resulted in ".." to be interpreted
> as an empty range "HEAD..HEAD", and worse yet, because ".." does exist on
> the filesystem, we get this annoying output:
>
>  $ cd Documentation/howto
>  $ git log .. ;# give me recent commits that touch Documentation/ area.
>  fatal: ambiguous argument '..': both revision and filename
>  Use '--' to separate filenames from revisions

Perhaps it's because I still don't use git quite enough yet... but I
don't find the above annoying.  *shrug*

-John

      parent reply	other threads:[~2011-05-03  8:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-05-02 19:15 [Annoyance] "git log .." thinks ".." is ambiguous Junio C Hamano
2011-05-02 19:33 ` Jeff King
2011-05-02 19:36   ` Jeff King
2011-05-02 20:36   ` Junio C Hamano
2011-05-02 20:42     ` Jeff King
2011-05-02 20:56     ` [PATCH v2] specifying ranges: we did not mean to make ".." an empty set Junio C Hamano
2011-05-02 21:01       ` Jeff King
2011-05-02 21:48         ` Junio C Hamano
2011-05-03  6:39         ` Michael J Gruber
2011-05-03 17:38           ` Junio C Hamano
2011-05-04  6:55             ` Michael J Gruber
2011-05-04 15:36               ` Junio C Hamano
2011-05-04 18:00                 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-05-03  1:57 ` [Annoyance] "git log .." thinks ".." is ambiguous Joshua Juran
2011-05-03  6:33   ` Michael J Gruber
2011-05-03  8:17     ` Joshua Juran
2011-05-03  8:45       ` Michael J Gruber
2011-05-03 19:00       ` Junio C Hamano
2011-05-03  8:38 ` John Szakmeister [this message]

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