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Re: git-gui: textconv not used on unstaged files

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Nov 26, 2012, 20:54 UTC
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Peter Oberndorfer <kumbayo84@arcor.de> writes:
> Does anybody have a idea which git command would output the diff
> of a untracked file against /dev/null?

The "--no-index" option is meant as a bolt-on to let you use various features of "git diff" that is missing from other people's "diff" in a context where git does not know anything about that file. It should be usable even outside a git repository.

    $ git diff --no-index /dev/null new-file.txt

I do not know offhand (and didn't bother to check) if textconv applies, though. It does need access to a git repository as it reads from the $GIT_DIR/config to learn what to do.

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