From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2010 07:13:59 GMT
Subject: Re: 'git diff' against files outside a git repo
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Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com> writes:

> Oddly, 'git diff file1 file2' *doesn't* work when file1 and file2 are
> in a working tree; git tries to diff something, apparently, but I
> don't know what.

Heh, I thought you've been using git long enough that you sh/would know
that you are comparing the index and the working tree, using "file1" and
"file2" as pathspecs.