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Defame1297 af8b46cd57 chore(plugins): sync generated content mirrors
Regenerate plugins/*/skills/ from plugins/*/.apm/ after the previous
four commits, via scripts/sync-plugin-content.sh --all. The mirror is
generated output (ADR-0017) that check-plugin-content-sync's pre-push
hook diffs against .apm/; nothing here is hand-edited.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01EeH8SCbcrCAQrtymkNuhKP
2026-09-07 20:43:51 +00:00

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Comparing two branches

The two-dot and three-dot forms mean different things and are easy to swap by accident — check the direction before reporting a result.

  • rtk git log main..feature — commits on feature that are not on main.
  • rtk git log feature..main — the reverse direction: commits on main not on feature.
  • rtk git log --left-right main...feature — both diverging sets at once (symmetric difference).
  • rtk git diff main...feature — the diff from the common ancestor to feature's tip, which is what a reviewer sees, rather than the diff between the two tips.
  • rtk git merge-base main feature — print the common ancestor commit.