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Re: Odd "git diff" breakage

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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date
Mar 31, 2014, 18:35 UTC
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On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 11:30 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
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> Hmph, interesting.  "outside a repository" is the key, it seems.

Well, you can do it inside a repository too, but then you need to use the "--no-index" flag to get the "diff two files" behavior. It will result in the same infinite error messages.

              Linus
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