From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Fri, 08 Aug 2008 21:45:23 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] Teach git diff-tree --stdin to diff trees
Message-ID: <20080808214523.GA31424@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <20080808204829.7744.11661.stgit@yoghurt>

On Fri, Aug 08, 2008 at 10:48:29PM +0200, Karl Hasselström wrote:

>  --stdin::
>  	When '--stdin' is specified, the command does not take
>  	<tree-ish> arguments from the command line.  Instead, it
> -	reads either one <commit> or a list of <commit>
> -	separated with a single space from its standard input.
> +	reads lines containing either two <tree>, one <commit>, or a
> +	list of <commit> from its standard input.  (Use a single space
> +	as separator.)

Hmm. Just looking at this as a git user, I would have expected it to
take one or more hashes, separated by spaces. If only one, then it must
be a commit, and it is diffed against its parents. If more than one,
then each must be a tree-ish. So you could diff a commit against a tree
(or a tag against a commit, or...).

And I think it might even be easier to code. ;)

-Peff