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Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> writes:

> Sure, and if we're going to change our docs to consistently use @ at
> either side of such ranges instead of the empty string for "HEAD" I
> think that's worth discussing if the goal is to get rid of ".." for
> "diff".
>
> I'm commenting on the in-between state being more confusing to users,
> which is as far as this patch gets us.

Yuck.  Let's not spread the @ disease.  We are not Perl where being
closer to line noise is somehow considered cool.  Spell it out as
HEAD, please.