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-rw-r--r--builtin/diff-tree.c10
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/builtin/diff-tree.c b/builtin/diff-tree.c
index 8b26a66a95..1fd06eac4b 100644
--- a/builtin/diff-tree.c
+++ b/builtin/diff-tree.c
@@ -104,9 +104,9 @@ int cmd_diff_tree(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
struct setup_revision_opt s_r_opt;
int read_stdin = 0;
+ git_config(git_diff_basic_config, NULL); /* no "diff" UI options */
init_revisions(opt, prefix);
gitmodules_config();
- git_config(git_diff_basic_config, NULL); /* no "diff" UI options */
opt->abbrev = 0;
opt->diff = 1;
opt->disable_stdin = 1;
@@ -127,9 +127,11 @@ int cmd_diff_tree(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
}
/*
- * NOTE! We expect "a ^b" to be equal to "a..b", so we
- * reverse the order of the objects if the second one
- * is marked UNINTERESTING.
+ * NOTE! We expect "a..b" to expand to "^a b" but it is
+ * perfectly valid for revision range parser to yield "b ^a",
+ * which means the same thing. If we get the latter, i.e. the
+ * second one is marked UNINTERESTING, we recover the original
+ * order the user gave, i.e. "a..b", by swapping the trees.
*/
switch (opt->pending.nr) {
case 0: