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authorJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2007-08-28 21:47:08 -0700
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2007-08-28 21:47:08 -0700
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Documentation/git-diff: A..B and A...B cannot take tree-ishes
As pointed out by Linus, these notations require the endpoints given by the end user to be commits. Clarify. Also, three-dots in AsciiDoc are turned into ellipses unless quoted with bq. Be careful. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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one side is omitted, it will have the same effect as
using HEAD instead.
-'git-diff' [--options] <commit>...<commit> [--] [<path>...]::
+'git-diff' [--options] <commit>\...<commit> [--] [<path>...]::
This form is to view the changes on the branch containing
and up to the second <commit>, starting at a common ancestor
- of both <commit>. "git-diff A...B" is equivalent to
+ of both <commit>. "git-diff A\...B" is equivalent to
"git-diff $(git-merge-base A B) B". You can omit any one
of <commit>, which has the same effect as using HEAD instead.
Just in case if you are doing something exotic, it should be
-noted that all of the <commit> in the above description can be
-any <tree-ish>.
+noted that all of the <commit> in the above description, except
+for the last two forms that use ".." notations, can be any
+<tree-ish>.
For a more complete list of ways to spell <commit>, see
"SPECIFYING REVISIONS" section in gitlink:git-rev-parse[1].
However, "diff" is about comparing two _endpoints_, not ranges,
and the range notations ("<commit>..<commit>" and
-"<commit>...<commit>") do not mean a range as defined in the
+"<commit>\...<commit>") do not mean a range as defined in the
"SPECIFYING RANGES" section in gitlink:git-rev-parse[1].
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