On Thu, 28 Sep 2006 19:28:59 -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> You may be doing this to help Cut & Paste.  Using A..B without
> spaces in between makes it easy to grab both at the same time as
> a range to give them to "git log".  At the same time it makes it
> harder to pick only A or B, so this is two-edged.
>

I had requested this change once to help cut and paste.

The current behavior I get for selecting hash1..hash2 with (for
example) gnome-terminal is somewhat unfortunate, (double-clicking on
any character selects the pair plus the separator). Obviously, '.'
must be considered a word character, not a separator. I wonder if such
selection is easily capable of being told to consider ".." a word
separator? If so, it seems the output would be quite convenient
whether one or two of the hashes were desired for selection.

-Carl