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Interesting. Is git range-diff and different than git log --patch A..B (or is it 3 dots?)? Most importantly: Directory rename detection! This is a huge help

• kadoban 8y ago
  It looks like range-diff is a little bit different than git log --patch A...B . It say it's "[...] a tool for comparing two sequences of commits, including changes to their order, commit messages, and the actual content changes they introduce." So it's a bit like comparing two separate git log --patch outputs for differences/similarities, and it does it in a semantic way (it knows the difference between commit messages, content changes, etc.). The log --patch would just give you every commit that differs at all from either branch, and all their changes. I could see this being a very common part of my workflow potentially. Off the top of my head I think I'll be using it to verify that a rebase -i did the actual changes that I meant it to, and no more. (just for clarity: two dots, git log --patch A..B, would just give you the log of commits with changes in that single range, three dots does the same for commits in either A or B but not both)