Re: cvs diff -l equivalent?

From: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Date: Jul 30, 2008, 14:00 UTC
Message-ID: <200807301600.44205.trast@student.ethz.ch>
In-Reply-To: <20080730082030.GA12555@cuci.nl>

Stephen R. van den Berg wrote:

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> Someone popped this question on me.  The closest I got was:
> 
>    git diff .
> 
> But that still recurses.  Any solutions without patching?

Maybe a scripted version?  For just 'git diff .', this should work:

  git diff $(git ls-files . | grep -v /)

That will still do the wrong thing if you diff against an older commit with a different list of files. In that case you need the list of files in the other side of the diff too:

  git diff HEAD^..  -- $(git ls-files . | grep -v /; git ls-tree HEAD^ | cut -f2)

- Thomas