Re: git-diff new files (without using index)

From: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
Date: Aug 5, 2007, 04:00 UTC
Message-ID: <87r6miljfr.fsf@catnip.gol.com>
In-Reply-To: <20070805035245.GE9527@spearce.org>

"Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org> writes:

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>> If I add things to the index, I can use "git-diff --cached" to do it;
>> however I'd actually like to be able to do this _without_ updating the
>> index
>
> Use a temporary index:

...

> Another option is to just add everything, then reset the index:

...

> Granted if you had other files staged they just became unstaged
> and will need to be restaged...  the temporary index trick above
> avoids that.

Thanks for the tip (I guess I can roll my own "git-diff-uncached" script)!

The above sort of quirkiness does seem kind of a wart though; in my (admittedly limited, using git) experience this sort of thing really reduces the utility of the index, and I often end up feeling like it's just getting in the way as a result. Does adding something like a "git-diff -N" option seem a _bad_ idea?

Thanks,

-Miles

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