Re: [kernel.org users] [RFD] On deprecating "git-foo" for builtins

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Aug 27, 2008, 20:53 UTC
Message-ID: <20080827205314.GA3198@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <48B5BB35.8090606@pobox.com>

On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 04:38:13PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:

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> I use it to spit out a patch for a specific commit:
>
> 	git-diff-tree -p $COMMIT
>
> Though probably someone will now come along and tell me I'm am old-timer, 
> and there is a shorter command that accomplishes the same thing :)

Actually, that is something that diff-tree does better (a single tree-ish with git-diff is "compare against working tree"). To do it with git-diff you would have to use the obscure (and not very shell-friendly) syntax:

  git diff $COMMIT^!

Although interactively, I tend to use "git show" for this purpose, though perhaps you intentionally don't want to see the commit message.

Anyway, thank you for satisfying my curiosity.

-Peff