Am 3/24/2011 16:44, schrieb Jakub Narebski: > 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". > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Good point! Of the inconsistencies that still remain in git, IMO, this is the most bearable one, because it's very easy to explain. -- Hannes -- 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