Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 19:45, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> This will trigger only when you did something random like this. >> >> $ git diff ^maint master ^next ^pu sr/frotz.. >> >> What else would you say against such an input? > > Something like "too many arguments, please specify at most two commits > to diff against"? The first part is correct, but the advice is not quite, as you are forbidding the combined diff to emulate "git show --cc pu" to view a merge at the tip of "pu" with git diff --cc pu pu~1 pu~2 which obviously has to allow three commits. -- To unsubscribe from this list: 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