From: Karl Hasselström <kha@treskal.com>
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 08:42:21 GMT
Subject: Re: an option to make "git-diff Z A" prints Z's diff before A's
Message-ID: <20061026084221.GB13780@diana.vm.bytemark.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <7vd58g9pfs.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On 2006-10-25 12:16:07 -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> The thing is, "git diff -- Z A" does *not* mean:
>
>       I know I have a file called Z and a file called A; please give
>       diff for these files.
>
> What it means is:
>
>       Please give me the diff as usual, but I care about paths that
>       match these patterns, Z or A.

A related question: is there a way to limit the path to Z, but
excluding Z/B? That is, I'm interested in the changes in Z, but not
the changes in its subdirectory B.

-- 
Karl Hasselström, kha@treskal.com