From: "Michal Suchánek" <msuchanek@suse.de>
To: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Cc: "Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>,
"Andreas Schwab" <schwab@linux-m68k.org>,
"Junio C Hamano" <gitster@pobox.com>,
"Denton Liu" <liu.denton@gmail.com>,
"Git Mailing List" <git@vger.kernel.org>,
"Philip Oakley" <philipoakley@iee.org>,
"Viresh Kumar" <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>,
"Vincent Guittot" <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>,
"Johannes Schindelin" <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: Deprecating git diff ..; dealing with other ranges
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2019 18:11:44 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190318181144.02dea38f@kitsune.suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CABPp-BHMi=RTWAVjuORdTWY3ijp4EKhy2QAH0=WrviCiotJtyw@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, 18 Mar 2019 10:07:08 -0700
Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 2:01 PM Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
> <avarab@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 12 2019, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> > > On Mär 12 2019, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> 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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-03-18 17:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-03-11 9:37 Deprecating git diff ..; dealing with other ranges Denton Liu
2019-03-11 13:19 ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-03-11 15:34 ` Elijah Newren
2019-03-12 7:17 ` Junio C Hamano
2019-03-12 17:24 ` Andreas Schwab
2019-03-12 21:01 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-03-13 7:01 ` Johannes Sixt
2019-03-18 17:07 ` Elijah Newren
2019-03-18 17:11 ` Michal Suchánek [this message]
2019-03-18 18:51 ` Elijah Newren
2019-03-18 17:59 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-03-13 1:20 ` Duy Nguyen
2019-03-13 18:12 ` Andreas Schwab
2019-03-12 7:22 ` Junio C Hamano
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