Hi, Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote: > A..B and A...B do not correspond to the meaning > specified in gitrevisions.txt. There's a note in the documentation > saying this, but I'm very unhappy. What would it mean for A..B to be treated as a revision range? Suppose I do a revision walk and come up with the commits x, y, and z. What is the resulting diff? The common syntax is just a mnemonic: in the same situations as I might use "git log A...B", it can be handy to use "git diff A...B". [...] > What about other things like 'git diff ^A ^B' and 'git diff A^!'? Why > is diff so inconsistent with everything else? "git diff ^A ^B" is invalid syntax. It's a bug that it doesn't complain. "git diff A^!" is a very convenient shorthand for "git diff A^ A". "diff" is fundamentally about comparing two endpoints. It is not a command for listing commits. Hoping that clarifies, Jonathan -- 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