From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2014 18:05:06 GMT
Subject: Odd "git diff" breakage
Message-ID: <CA+55aFxYBDXs8mGQ3weR2PSOdMgOzMXPT=uWstL4c4BKnykkdA@mail.gmail.com>

I hit this oddity when not remembering the right syntax for --color-words..

Try this (outside of a git repository):

   touch a b
   git diff -u --color=words a b

and watch it scroll (infinitely) printing out

   error: option `color' expects "always", "auto", or "never"

forever.

I haven't tried to root-cause it, since I'm supposed to be merging stuff..

                Linus