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Re: git-diff between /dev/null and blob

From
Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date
Jul 31, 2006, 06:50 UTC
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<7vmzaq9sjs.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
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Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> writes:
> Currently, due to artifact of git-diff argument parsing you can get diff 
> of two arbitrary blobs given by their sha1 id, e.g.
>   git diff ab8050ceb4e43522e858768cc2c02fcb91839370 fd05278808d458602587bb024a48726018d30926

Just FYI, it is pretty much by design not artifact to allow something like this:

	git diff master:Makefile next:Makefile
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