On Sat, 6 May 2006, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > While this would be easier on _my_ fingers as well, I have a > suspicion that it might make more sense to make this "single > ref" case to mean "HEAD~5^..HEAD~5" (if we _were_ designing a > new command that is called format-patch today, that would be > more natural). Careful, that "X^..X" thing does entirely the wrong thing for merges. Not what you want at all, I think. > But probably it is too late to break it by now. Maybe not. I've actually cursed the fact that I made "git diff X" mean "diff from X to current working tree", because it almost never makes any sense at all when X is anything but "HEAD". I probably _should_ have made "git diff X" mean basically "git show X", and not what it means now. Oh, well. Linus - : send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html