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From: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
To: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
	Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>,
	Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>,
	vincent.guittot@linaro.org
Subject: Re: [Bug report] git diff stat shows unrelated diff
Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2019 10:04:53 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190218043453.b3jkt365bvg2deox@vireshk-i7> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CABPp-BFpj8DBxgsqe9Rqnzb4vx5fPqNc+sUj8LzrFMj2bacoBQ@mail.gmail.com>

On 15-02-19, 08:09, Elijah Newren wrote:
> Hi Viresh,
> 
> On Thu, Feb 14, 2019 at 10:40 PM Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org> wrote:
> >
> > On 14-02-19, 13:23, Elijah Newren wrote:
> > > I think you're getting tripped up by double-dot vs triple-dot with
> > > diff being different than log:
> > >
> > > `git diff D..E` means the same thing as `git diff D E`, i.e. diff the
> > > two commits D and E.
> >
> > Right, so both the branches have at least until rc2 (though
> > pm/linux-next had until rc6), why will the diff D..E show the diff
> > between rc1 and rc2 ?
> 
> I don't think it does; it includes the diff between rc2 and rc6.
> First, `git diff D..E` will show you roughly the same thing as if you
> have two clones of linux, one with D checked out, one with E checked
> out, and then you run 'diff -ru linux-copy1/ linux-copy2/'.
> 
> But let's go back to your example, you had
> 
> Branch A: commit 55538fbc79e9
> Branch B: commit a4f342b9607d
> Branch C: commit 7c139d3f0f99
> Branch pm/linux-next: unspecified, but I'll guess commit a06639e89e4

I mentioned that at the bottom of the email, d26ff2405272 :)

And yes I got confused somehow earlier, ran all the commands again to
verify the diffs, sorry about that.

-- 
viresh

      reply	other threads:[~2019-02-18  4:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-02-14  8:22 [Bug report] git diff stat shows unrelated diff Viresh Kumar
2019-02-14 18:42 ` Johannes Sixt
2019-02-14 21:23 ` Elijah Newren
2019-02-14 22:10   ` Junio C Hamano
2019-02-15 18:52     ` Denton Liu
2019-02-15 19:25       ` Elijah Newren
2019-02-15 20:12         ` Junio C Hamano
2019-02-15 22:48           ` Philip Oakley
2019-02-15 23:32             ` Junio C Hamano
2019-02-16 12:47               ` Philip Oakley
2019-02-17  3:34                 ` Junio C Hamano
2019-02-17 23:34                   ` Philip Oakley
2019-02-18  0:21                     ` Junio C Hamano
2019-02-15 19:28       ` Junio C Hamano
2019-02-15  6:40   ` Viresh Kumar
2019-02-15 16:09     ` Elijah Newren
2019-02-18  4:34       ` Viresh Kumar [this message]

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