On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 22:45, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > "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". ÂThis 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. > > It was fine for people who are used to seeing "git diff A..B" and silently > translating it to "git diff A B" in their head, but it made things hard > for new people. ÂIt is easy to mistakenly think that "git diff A..B" has > some similarity with "git log A..B" (there isn't). I like the dot-dot notation a lot. -- 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