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Re: using git-diff as a diff replacement?

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Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date
Feb 25, 2016, 02:38 UTC
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On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 5:21 AM, Jacob Keller <jacob.keller@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Hey,
>
> I know that running "git diff <path> <path>" when outside a git
> project will result in a normal diff being run. I happen to prefer the
> diff algorithm and diff output of "git diff" but there does not seem
> to be a way to have this behavior from within a git tree.
git diff --no-index <path> <path>
?
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Duy
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