On Tue, Mar 12 2019, Andreas Schwab wrote: > On Mär 12 2019, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> I however think it may be worth making sure that our docs do not >> encourage "diff A..B" and teach "diff A B" when comparing two >> endpoints. That can be done without changing anything in the code. > > The nice thing about "diff A..B" is that you can c&p the output from the > fetch run without the need to edit it. Not to shoot down this effort, just to add another similar thing I do regularly for ff-branches: 1. Copy/paste A..B fetch output 2. git log A..B 3. ^log^diff I.e. I just need to tell my terminal to re-run the same "log" command with "diff" instead of "log". Of course as covered in the linked thread it doesn't work for some (non-ff) cases, and I'll sometimes end up cursing it and swapping around ".." for "..." with log/diff.
