From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2014 18:35:13 GMT
Subject: Re: Odd "git diff" breakage
Message-ID: <CA+55aFzjqsMzQxAJAK0DUM0DepE_qQSzSXyN=i9juUyzySM8oQ@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 11:30 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>
> 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