Junio C Hamano wrote: > And it does not match "git log origin...HEAD" which gives both sides > of the symmetric difference of the history. To match it, you have > to say "git log --right-only origin...HEAD" or something. I tend to use --left-right. All I meant is that with both diff and log, ... is a way to get something meaningful when my history and someone else's history have diverged. I agree that it would be easier to explain if there were some git diff --from-merge-base A B We could say that "git diff A...B" is a mostly meaningless shorthand for that. -- 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