From: Carlos Martín Nieto <cmn@elego.de>
Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2012 21:33:28 GMT
Subject: Re: [BUG] "git diff FILE BRANCH:FILE" erroneously report FILE does not exist in BRANCH
Message-ID: <1327181608.31804.27.camel@centaur.lab.cmartin.tk>
In-Reply-To: <4F1B13BB.8070603@gmail.com>

On Sat, 2012-01-21 at 20:36 +0100, Stefano Lattarini wrote:
> 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