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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
To: Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Equivalent of "bzr diff -rancestor:"
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2014 13:59:12 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv4mtxpt9y.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87h9xxpvgh.fsf@mithlond.arda> (Teemu Likonen's message of "Mon,  17 Nov 2014 19:50:54 +0200")

> Don't know Bazaar very well so here is my guess about what you may want.
> A diff between master's and foo's common ancestor and the tip of foo:

>     git diff master...foo           # Three dots.

Ha!  That does it, without resorting to running another command to
compute the common ancestor.

This said, "C-u C-x v =" still doesn't like it, because it uses
diff-index rather than diff, and diff-index doesn't seem to like
"master...".


        Stefan



      reply	other threads:[~2014-11-17 18:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-11-17 14:45 Equivalent of "bzr diff -rancestor:" Stefan Monnier
2014-11-17 14:58 ` Nicolas Richard
2014-11-17 17:24   ` Stefan Monnier
2014-11-17 18:59     ` Nicolas Richard
2014-11-17 15:29 ` Andreas Schwab
2014-11-17 17:40   ` Stefan Monnier
2014-11-17 17:50 ` Teemu Likonen
2014-11-17 18:59   ` Stefan Monnier [this message]

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