Re: Inconsistency in specifying commit & path for git diff

2012-10-09 Thread Junio C Hamano
Arthur Etchells writes: > git diff .. > and > git diff > both succeed > however > git diff :..: > fails while > git diff : : > succeeds > ... > It seems logical to support the '..' syntax in both for consistency. "git diff A..B" is an illogical thing to say in the first place. It only happens

Re: Inconsistency in specifying commit & path for git diff

2012-10-09 Thread Andreas Schwab
Arthur Etchells writes: > git diff :..: : represents a tree or blob, but .. requires commits as its end points. (You can dereference a commit to get a tree or blob, but not the other way round.) Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756

Inconsistency in specifying commit & path for git diff

2012-10-09 Thread Arthur Etchells
git diff .. and git diff both succeed however git diff :..: fails while git diff : : succeeds OS X 10.7.5 git version 1.7.9.1 Reproduced by another user: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12805004/git-cherry-pick-creates-blobs-not-commits#comment17319876_12805004 It seems logical to support