Re: "GIT_INDEX_FILE" environment variable

From: Petr Baudis <pasky@ucw.cz>
Date: Apr 22, 2005, 22:33 UTC
Message-ID: <20050422223341.GC21204@pasky.ji.cz>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0504221503270.2344@ppc970.osdl.org>

Dear diary, on Sat, Apr 23, 2005 at 12:14:16AM CEST, I got a letter where Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> told me that...

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> (And I personally think that "show-diff" is really part of the "wrapper
> scripts" around git. I wrote it originally just because I needed something
> to verify the index file handling, not because it's "core" like the other
> programs. I do _not_ consider "show-diff" to be part of the core git code,
> really. Same goes for "git-export", btw - for the same reasons. It's not
> "fundamental").

Note that Cogito almost actually does not use show-diff anymore. I'm doing diff-cache now, since that is what matters to me.

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