Re: diff for deleted file only, when changed to directory

From: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date: Dec 8, 2010, 09:56 UTC
Message-ID: <AANLkTinW4DjHnNORH3FRi7fQsYAf+Ky_Jr14ZxOu2So2@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikMf5qRaqkdiOKP_PBf=Q68fMc2U5WVN-7SWFYC@mail.gmail.com>

2010/12/8 Bert Wesarg <bert.wesarg@googlemail.com>:

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> 2010/12/8 Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>:
>> Bert Wesarg wrote:
>>
>>>                                                                git
>>> diff --cached -- foo shows me the diff for both the file foo and file
>>> foo/bar.
>> [...]
>>>                                              But for the case
>>> file->directory, I would like to see only the deleted diff, not
>>> recursing into the directory.
>>
>> If I understand correctly, this is a documentation bug and feature
>> request.
>>
>> The documentation bug: the "git diff" documentation says something
>> like
>>
>>        git diff [--options] [<tree>[..<tree>]] [--] [<path>...]
>>
>> but the <path>s after "--" are actually patterns (path specifiers).
>> See [1] ([RFD] git glossary: define pathspec, 2010-11-29).
>>
>> The feature request: there is no way to specify an "exact match"
>> or "negative match" when specifying paths.  At least "negative
>> match" has been suggested before.
>>
>
> Thanks for the pointers.
>
> I don't expect that we can change <foo> to match only files and not directories.

Try

diff --cached -- '[f]'

From top of my memory, directory matching does not work with wildcards. By putting wildcards to your patterns, dir should never be matched again. I haven't tested it though.

-- 
Duy