From 0c783f66df9470ec789825ca3df8fb2922c3c8bd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 21:47:08 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Documentation/git-diff: A..B and A...B cannot take tree-ishes

As pointed out by Linus, these notations require the endpoints
given by the end user to be commits.  Clarify.

Also, three-dots in AsciiDoc are turned into ellipses unless
quoted with bq.  Be careful.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
---
 Documentation/git-diff.txt | 11 ++++++-----
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/git-diff.txt b/Documentation/git-diff.txt
index 68e65324f..db2eb46a1 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-diff.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-diff.txt
@@ -53,23 +53,24 @@ forced by --no-index.
 	one side is omitted, it will have the same effect as
 	using HEAD instead.
 
-'git-diff' [--options] <commit>...<commit> [--] [<path>...]::
+'git-diff' [--options] <commit>\...<commit> [--] [<path>...]::
 
 	This form is to view the changes on the branch containing
 	and up to the second <commit>, starting at a common ancestor
-	of both <commit>.  "git-diff A...B" is equivalent to
+	of both <commit>.  "git-diff A\...B" is equivalent to
 	"git-diff $(git-merge-base A B) B".  You can omit any one
 	of <commit>, which has the same effect as using HEAD instead.
 
 Just in case if you are doing something exotic, it should be
-noted that all of the <commit> in the above description can be
-any <tree-ish>.
+noted that all of the <commit> in the above description, except
+for the last two forms that use ".." notations, can be any
+<tree-ish>.
 
 For a more complete list of ways to spell <commit>, see
 "SPECIFYING REVISIONS" section in gitlink:git-rev-parse[1].
 However, "diff" is about comparing two _endpoints_, not ranges,
 and the range notations ("<commit>..<commit>" and
-"<commit>...<commit>") do not mean a range as defined in the
+"<commit>\...<commit>") do not mean a range as defined in the
 "SPECIFYING RANGES" section in gitlink:git-rev-parse[1].
 
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