Subject: Re: Inconsistency in specifying commit & path for git diff

From: Andreas Schwab <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2012 22:37:18 +0200

Arthur Etchells <[email-masked]> writes:

> git diff <commit>:<path>..<commit>:<path>

<commit>:<path> 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.

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