Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> "git diff" (and "diff-tree") accepts a range notation "A..B" from the
> command line to specify the two endpoints to be compared; the right way to
> spell this would be "git diff A B". This is merely a historical accident
> that comes from the fact that "git log" family of commands and "git diff"
> happens to share some code in their command line parsers.
I think it is quite useful to acept this notation to allow for
copy'n'paste from e.g. "git fetch" output:
5e839c8..cd3065f master -> origin
On can simply paste "git diff 5e839c8..cd3065f".
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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Jakub Narebski
Poland
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