difftool -d symlinks, under what conditions

From: Matt McClure <matthewlmcclure@gmail.com>
Date: Nov 26, 2012, 20:23 UTC
Message-ID: <CAJELnLGq_oLBiNHANoaE7iEiA6g4fXX0PtJbqPFi4PQ+5LLvnA@mail.gmail.com>

I'm finding the behavior of `git difftool -d` surprising. It seems that it only uses symlinks to the working copy for files that are modified in the working copy since the most recent commit. I would have expected it to use symlinks for all files whose version under comparison is the working copy version, regardless of whether the working copy differs from the HEAD.

I'm using

    $ git --version
    git version 1.8.0

on a Mac from Homebrew.

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