From: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2013 16:12:48 GMT
Subject: Re: Git issues with submodules
Message-ID: <CALkWK0myk5fWcHdwNtjct4Ji4y4=iVT36wZxqOqZS6S7kem+OQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20131122151120.GA32361@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King wrote:
>> I just checked it out: it uses `git ls-files -m` to get the list of
>> unstaged changes; `git diff --name-only HEAD --` will list staged
>> changes as well.
>
> That diff command compares the working tree and HEAD; if you are trying
> to match `ls-files -m`, you probably wanted just `git diff --name-only`
> to compare the working tree and the index. Although in a script you'd
> probably want to use the plumbing `git diff-files` instead.

Thanks for that. It's probably not worth fixing ls-files; I'll patch
Arcanist to use diff-files instead.