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From: John Szakmeister <john@szakmeister.net>
Subject: Re: [Annoyance] "git log .." thinks ".." is ambiguous
Date: Tue, 3 May 2011 04:38:52 -0400
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On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 3:15 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrot=
e:
> 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). =C2=A0But this resulted in ".." to be in=
terpreted
> as an empty range "HEAD..HEAD", and worse yet, because ".." does exis=
t on
> the filesystem, we get this annoying output:
>
> =C2=A0$ cd Documentation/howto
> =C2=A0$ git log .. ;# give me recent commits that touch Documentation=
/ area.
> =C2=A0fatal: ambiguous argument '..': both revision and filename
> =C2=A0Use '--' 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