On Sun, Aug 26, 2007 at 08:40:56PM -0500, Shawn Bohrer <shawn.bohrer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > So if I understand you correctly people in the git world are simply more > used to typing two dots (instead of three) so that is why the two dot > notation shows the more common use case (show me the difference between > the tip of the master branch and the tip of the topic branch). > > I must admit that for me, a new git user, it would be much more > intuitive if all git commands used the same syntax for specifying > revisions. After all every other git command that I have used so far > uses the opposite syntax as git-diff. This includes git-log, > git-format-patch, gitk, git-rev-list, and git-rev-parse. Similar experience here. It is even more a problem for newcomers when you consider it isn't documented in either git-rev-parse or git-diff manual pages. Mike - 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
