From: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@fieldses.org>
Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2005 17:43:59 GMT
Subject: Re: Diffs "from" working directory
Message-ID: <20051120174359.GA24177@fieldses.org>
In-Reply-To: <200511201817.15780.blaisorblade@yahoo.it>

On Sun, Nov 20, 2005 at 06:17:15PM +0100, Blaisorblade wrote:
> I've given a look at commit fcc1ad70be5ff89996358b6d770cd229fec2a3ba, and 
> while it may or may not be the right thing to do, there's a misunderstanding 
> at the base.

What misunderstanding?  Could you quote it?

> For instance, in the stg tree, before that patch, I can do:
> 
> $ echo ciao >> README
> $ stg diff -r HEAD:
> $ stg diff -r HEAD
> diff --git a/README b/README
> index 184ded8..adb3970 100644
> --- a/README
> +++ b/README
> @@ -12,3 +12,4 @@ StGIT commands.
> 
>  For the latest version see http://www.procode.org/stgit/
>  For a tutorial see http://wiki.procode.org/cgi-bin/wiki.cgi/StGIT_Tutorial
> +ciao

That's a diff *to* the working directory.  My complaint was that there
wasn't a convenient way to get a diff *from* the working directory.

It's nice to have a convenient shorthand for the current working
directory, and since there's already a shorthand for the HEAD ("HEAD")
it seemed more sensible to make "" the current working directory.

It's a minor point, but it seems convenient.

--b.