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Re: [BUG] "git diff FILE BRANCH:FILE" erroneously report FILE does not exist in BRANCH

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Carlos Martín Nieto <cmn@elego.de>
Date
Jan 21, 2012, 21:33 UTC
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On Sat, 2012-01-21 at 20:36 +0100, Stefano Lattarini wrote:
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> I'd expect the last "git diff" to report the same diffs as the previous one;
> instead, it errors out with this bogus message:
> 
>   fatal: Path 'README' exists on disk, but not in 'master'.
> 
> Behaviour verified with git version 1.7.7.3 (installed from official Debian
> packages) and the latest git development version (1.7.9.rc0.69.gbddcef, from
> master).
>

See http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/188355 for earlier discussion. I haven't gotten around to see if I can fix it without upsetting too much code.

   cmn
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