Re: [PATCH v5 0/4] history: add squash subcommand to fold a range

On 26/06/2026 10:57, Harald Nordgren wrote:

On Fri, Jun 26, 2026 at 10:53 AM Phillip Wood [off-list ref] wrote:>> >> Only accepting a single argument is quite limiting as one

quoted

cannot say

         git history squash ^:/base :/tip

I don't understand why this is limiting? It thought it was clear that
it should be one argument REF1..REF2 ? What does '^:/base :/tip'
achieve that '^:/base..:/tip' cannot?

'^/:base..:/tip' is not a range - everything after the first '/:' is treated as a regular expression to search for.

Thanks

Phillip