Re: What's cooking in git.git (topics)

From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Feb 20, 2007, 08:35 UTC
Message-ID: <7v1wklz0p7.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <20070220082020.GA27084@localdomain>

Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net> writes:

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> Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> wrote:
>> * js/diff-2 (Sun Feb 18 12:44:43 2007 +0100) 1 commit
>>  - Add `git diff2`, a GNU diff workalike
>> 
>> Undecided.  Perhaps will merge to 'next' to see if somebody else
>> comes up with a better naming idea.
>
> With this, we can get rid of any test dependency on an external diff
> and have a consistent replacement for cmp[1], as well.
>
> `git gdiff`?  `git xdiff`?  `gdiff` would be easier on the fingers
> (assuming querty), but `xdiff` is probably a more accurate name.

Well, my trouble was that it is anything other than "diff".

An obvious alternative is the same command name (at least superficially) with an option, such as "diff --fs". I am not sure if that is any better than "git {something}diff", though.