From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Mon, 01 May 2017 05:29:03 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] Have the diff-* builtins configure diff before initializing revisions.
Message-ID: <20170501052903.nkcg3ndcgbfj7t2p@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <20170501051758.bei3odg3gehtbxbv@sigill.intra.peff.net>

On Mon, May 01, 2017 at 01:17:58AM -0400, Jeff King wrote:

> Yeah, I agree it is an existing bug. The only other case I found is
> dirstat. Doing:
> 
>   mkdir a b
>   for i in 1 2; do echo content >a/$i; done
>   for i in 1 2 3; do echo content >b/$i; done
>   git -c diff.dirstat=50 diff-tree --dirstat --root HEAD
> 
> should respect the config and show only "b", but it doesn't currently
> (and does with Marc's patch).

Er, there's a "git add a b; git commit -m foo" missing before running
the diff, of course.

-Peff