From: Santi Béjar <santi@agolina.net>
Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2010 13:59:18 GMT
Subject: Re: Undocumented git-diff syntax
Message-ID: <AANLkTinqPiGf1nbo0oOvDD5edgLBdO8xZfjGeFC4q0MU@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20101011150342.292ad725@chalon.bertin.fr>

On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 3:03 PM, Yann Dirson <dirson@bertin.fr> wrote:
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> Another thought: if we can already compare arbitrary blobs, maybe it would not be so hard to
> extend it to take arbitrary contents that are not stored as blobs yet ?  (a quick hack would be to
> insert an object for them, but that does not look too clean...).  As a use-case, I'm often found generating diffs from within custom scripts, from contents derived from a git repo, but can't use all the bells and whistles (--color, --color-words, etc), just because I have to use plain diff;
> that makes the output of those scripts very inconsistent with native git commands.

Are you talking about "git diff --no-index"?

HTH,
Santi