Re: 'git diff' against files outside a git repo

From: Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com>
Date: Sep 26, 2010, 09:38 UTC
Message-ID: <AANLkTikJ-SN5xmwqhEHcESfQCWvGjSHp3OK1Hi4+0jBL@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vwrq9m0y0.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 12:13 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:

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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.

Ha, of course. And I do that all the time, so it's silly that I somehow forgot for the duration of that email.

The real surprise was that this *wasn't* the meaning when I was outside a git tree :)

Have fun,

Avery