RE: [bug?] git diff --cached in a non-git directory
On September 9, 2024 2:40 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote:
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><rsbecker@nexbridge.com> writes:
>
>>>error: unknown option `cached'
>>>usage: git diff --no-index [<options>] <path> <path> [...]
>> ...
>> Because you are not in a git repository clone, the --cached option has
>> no meaning.
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>Yes. "git diff" unfortunately has a mode where a limited subset of its
>available and that is called the "--no-index" mode.
>
>Because the command is capable of working outside a repository, "You are
>repository" is a not a good error message in this situation, either. It is
>stepped outside a repository that is your error. It is not that you used
>that is your error, either. You used "--cached" outside a repository, that
>your error is.
>
>A patch to improve the error messages in such a situation is certainly
welcome.
Glad to. Can you point me at where this is generated?
rsbecker@nexbridge.com <rsbecker@nexbridge.com>