Re: 'git diff' against files outside a git repo
On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 4:23 PM, Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Hi all,
>
> I'm interested in using 'git diff' on some files that aren't actually
> inside a git repo at all. Specifically, the --color-words and
> --word-diff-regex are really cool and I happen to have a use for them
> on files that aren't stored verbatim in git. As a whole, git's
> implementation of diff seems to be the fastest-moving one out there,
> so I'd rather use it instead of another random diff implementation.
>
> Is there already a way to get 'git diff' to do this?
>
> If not, would it be sensible to extend git-diff to do comparison
> between two outside files?
Isn't this what git diff --no-index ... does?
Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>