From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andreas Schwab Subject: Re: Inconsistency in specifying commit & path for git diff Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2012 22:37:18 +0200 Message-ID: References: <50747E48.3060203@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Arthur Etchells X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Oct 09 22:37:32 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TLgYW-00038y-Ew for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Tue, 09 Oct 2012 22:37:32 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752974Ab2JIUhW (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Oct 2012 16:37:22 -0400 Received: from mail-out.m-online.net ([212.18.0.10]:42930 "EHLO mail-out.m-online.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751116Ab2JIUhV (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Oct 2012 16:37:21 -0400 Received: from frontend1.mail.m-online.net (frontend1.mail.intern.m-online.net [192.168.8.180]) by mail-out.m-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3XbqxV6Nqrz3hhqL; Tue, 9 Oct 2012 22:37:18 +0200 (CEST) X-Auth-Info: HzO8NI1YxXmS2zfS+qE2k8q7jHErBEQoXS1jOoXfxfc= Received: from igel.home (ppp-88-217-104-135.dynamic.mnet-online.de [88.217.104.135]) by mail.mnet-online.de (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 3XbqxV66KhzbbhF; Tue, 9 Oct 2012 22:37:18 +0200 (CEST) Received: by igel.home (Postfix, from userid 501) id 8B3D3CA2A4; Tue, 9 Oct 2012 22:37:18 +0200 (CEST) X-Yow: I wonder if I could ever get started in the credit world? In-Reply-To: <50747E48.3060203@gmail.com> (Arthur Etchells's message of "Tue, 09 Oct 2012 15:43:04 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.2 (gnu/linux) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Arthur Etchells writes: > git diff :..: : represents a tree or blob, but .. requires commits as its end points. (You can dereference a commit to get a tree or blob, but not the other way round.) Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, schwab@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."