Re: Merge-base alias for git vc-diff

[Juri Linkov]

>> The only problem is that then we have to use different amount of dots
>> for vc-root-diff and vc-print-root-log because in git: ‘git diff
>> A...B’ corresponds to ‘git log A..B’ whereas ‘git diff A..B’
>> corresponds to ‘git log A...B’
>
> Really? Ugh, that unfortunate.  Well we could just live with it or use
> different symbols to abstract it away.

Another question is whether to use the same Git syntax for other dVCSes?
It seems that finding a common ancestor is a common task among them:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6743068/merge-base-analog-for-mercurial-and-bzr-to-find-common-ancestors-as-possible-fo