From: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2013 19:10:37 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] git-diff.txt: fix ordering of the [--no-index] form
Message-ID: <CALkWK0n2zFp1t7qtKp8-Ohoz0QEn4BQrfvxzqt+qwLS5+sNdHQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20130424190638.GE29963@google.com>

Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> Maybe it would make sense to move towards eliminating the "implicit
> --no-index for paths outside the repository" trick.  I use "git diff
> --no-index" all the time, but I always spell it out to be careful.

Huh?  Why do you want to endure the pain of spelling it out, when your
intent is perfectly clear?

What would make sense is a tristate diff.no-index:
inside-worktree|outside-worktree|always.  I don't know why we should
even have a "never".