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From: Jacob Keller <jacob.keller@gmail.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Git mailing list <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: generating combined diff without an existing merge commit
Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2016 15:54:29 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+P7+xq1i8AtQ7i=1m_n9HTSL10kFUFBn8jvNcB_t_6Rh29u4w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqq60olb9zq.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>

On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 3:41 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> Jacob Keller <jacob.keller@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Turns out that somehow I must have messed up my command because "git
>> diff <treeish> <treeish> <treeish>" does indeed do exactly what I
>> want.
>
> Thanks.  I was wondering why it didn't work for you, as the feature
> was done exactly to support that use case ;-)

I'm not really sure. It kept spitting out usage information to me, but
then I tried again with a fresh example and it worked as expected.

Thanks,
Jake

  reply	other threads:[~2016-10-21 22:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-10-21 21:40 generating combined diff without an existing merge commit Jacob Keller
2016-10-21 22:01 ` Jacob Keller
2016-10-21 22:41   ` Junio C Hamano
2016-10-21 22:54     ` Jacob Keller [this message]
2016-10-26  9:11       ` [PATCH] Documentation/git-diff: document git diff with 3+ commits Michael J Gruber
2016-10-26 18:11         ` Junio C Hamano
2016-10-27  9:27           ` Michael J Gruber
2016-10-27 18:40             ` Junio C Hamano

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