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Re: [PATCH] add a diff-files command (revised)

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Petr Baudis <pasky@ucw.cz>
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Apr 28, 2005, 02:15 UTC
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Dear diary, on Thu, Apr 28, 2005 at 04:06:29AM CEST, I got a letter where Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> told me that...

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> In the same spirit as diff-tree and diff-cache, here is a diff-files 
> command that processes differences between the index cache and the 
> working directory content.  It produces lists of files that are either 
> changed, deleted and/or unknown with regards to the current cache, 
> content. The -p option can also be used to generate a patch describing 
> the differences in patch form.
Except some usage enhancement, how does this differ from show-diff?
Also, for some reason you have update-cache.c in your patch too.
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  1. add a diff-files command (revised)Nicolas Pitre, Apr 28, 2005
  2. Petr BaudisApr 28, 2005
  3. Nicolas PitreApr 28, 2005

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