On Mon, 18 Mar 2019 10:07:08 -0700 Elijah Newren <newren@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 2:01 PM Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason > <avarab@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > 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. > > Doesn't this somewhat imply that although you use diff A..B here for > convenience, that it's actually wrong since what you really want is > A...B? Or said another way, the end goal of deprecating "diff "A..B" > then later reinstating "diff A..B" to mean the same thing as "diff > A...B" would actually be better even for your usecase? I usually mean diff A..B in this case. Thanks Michal
