From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2013 22:16:33 GMT
Subject: Re: difftool -d symlinks, under what conditions
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In-Reply-To: <CAJELnLGBr1wOX4-3rCNjPpPLezc_6FgyeuPqty268JR0==qtvQ@mail.gmail.com>

Matt McClure <matthewlmcclure@gmail.com> writes:

> An alternative approach would be to reuse git-diff's option parsing
> and make it tell git-difftool when git-diff sees the working tree
> case. At this point, I haven't seen an obvious place in the source
> where git-diff makes that choice, but if someone could point me in the
> right direction, I think I'd actually prefer that approach. What do
> you think?

I do not think you want to go there.  That wouldn't solve the third
case in my previous message, no?