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On Thu, Nov 19, 2020 at 02:00:36PM -0500, Dan Langille wrote:
> Mathieu mentioned: git log $foo_hash...branch_name
> 
> That was the first time I've seen that used. All previous suggestions were HEAD, not branch_name. But they are all the same in this context?

As already mentioned, it depends.  I found the documentation for
"Specifying Revisions" in `git help rev-parse` helpful when I was new to
git:
https://git-scm.com/docs/git-rev-parse#_specifying_revisions

Tom