From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sat, 24 May 2008 05:17:23 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] diff -- file1 file2: do not default to --no-index inside a git repository
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In-Reply-To: <7v8wy0r2pa.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

> I think ripping out --no-index from git-diff-files is probably the first
> step.  "git diff" also needs to fixed as Linus outlined, but that is a
> separate topic.
>
> How about doing something like this as a start?  At least that would get
> well behaved Porcelains like stg unstuck?
> ...

Please do not use this one, not just yet.

The series to fix this unfortunately is turning out to be larger than I
hoped for, but the result is looking very promising ;-).