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From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Q: "git diff" using tag names
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"Ulrich Windl" <Ulrich.Windl@rz.uni-regensburg.de> writes:

> When using a somewhat older git (of SLES11 SP1 SDK),

Nb. you can check version of git with "git --version".

>                                                      I could not
> find a way to "git diff" between two tag names; I can only diff
> between two commit numbers. I can display a changeset using "git
> show", but that's not what I wanted.
>
> Is it possible to get the diff I want using older versions, and is
> such a feature implemented in the current version? If so, since
> when?

=46rom the very beginning in Git you can use tag name where you need
commit identifier; Git would use commit that tag points to (will
dereference or peel a tag).

That is not possible in some [censored] version control systems; I am
looking at you, Subversion!


So if you can do

  $ git show v0.9
  $ git show v1.0

you can also do

  $ git diff v0.9 v1.0

and

  $ git log v0.9..v1.0

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