Re: Confusion about diffing branches

On Sun, Aug 26, 2007 at 08:40:56PM -0500, Shawn Bohrer [off-list ref] wrote:

So if I understand you correctly people in the git world are simply more
used to typing two dots (instead of three) so that is why the two dot
notation shows the more common use case (show me the difference between
the tip of the master branch and the tip of the topic branch).

I must admit that for me, a new git user, it would be much more
intuitive if all git commands used the same syntax for specifying
revisions.  After all every other git command that I have used so far
uses the opposite syntax as git-diff.  This includes git-log,
git-format-patch, gitk, git-rev-list, and git-rev-parse.

Similar experience here. It is even more a problem for newcomers when
you consider it isn't documented in either git-rev-parse or git-diff
manual pages.

Mike