Re: [PATCH] Make 'diff C^!' show the same diff as 'show C'

Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] writes:

We already mark the left side commit "..." with SYMMETRIC_LEFT bit, so you
should be able to detect it from the setup_revisions() result.  If we were
to formerly add some special meaning (other than being a short-hand of

blush.  I meant "formally".

^C^n C) to the ugly C^! syntax, I would suggest marking the result of in a
similar way to allow you to detect it from the result.

But I do mean moderately strong negativeness when I say "if we _were_"
above.