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Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu> writes:

> Well, the other design alternative is to make git-show take a list of
> objects, so that
>
> 	git show v1.5.0..v1.5.0.1
>
> ends up displaying the same thing as
>
> 	git show `git-rev-list v1.5.0..v1.5.0.1`
>
> ... but I'm not really convinced that's really all that useful.  

I think we are better off doing "git show v1.5.0..v1.5.0.1" for
that, but we do take multiple objects.

> Note the use of singular.  That would imply that it takes a single
> object, and not a range of objects.  Of course, if the above behavior
> were actually shown to be useful, man pages can always be easily
> changed.  :-)

I find myself running "git show --stat v1.X.Y v1.X.Y+1" every
time I tag a new release Y+2 to find out things like:

	* Should I say "Git v1.5.1" or "GIT 1.5.1"?
	* Ah, I have to update GIT-VERSION-GEN, which I did, good.