From: Stephen R. van den Berg <srb@cuci.nl>
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 16:17:14 GMT
Subject: Re: cvs diff -l equivalent?
Message-ID: <20080730161714.GC27166@cuci.nl>
In-Reply-To: <200807301600.44205.trast@student.ethz.ch>

Thomas Rast wrote:
>Stephen R. van den Berg wrote:
>> 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 /)

git diff $(git ls-files --exclude-standard . | fgrep -v /)

comes the closest, so it seems.

>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)

This doesn't seem to do the right thing, it messes up with which commit we
diff.
-- 
Sincerely,
           Stephen R. van den Berg.

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