From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Tue, 03 Jul 2007 13:39:32 GMT
Subject: Re: being nice to patch(1)
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0707031437560.4071@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <86y7hxr591.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz>

Hi David,

[please Cc me, since I will be more likely to miss replies if you do not]

On Tue, 3 Jul 2007, David Kastrup wrote:

> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
> 
> > But maybe they would be willing to install git to get that wonderful 
> > git-apply program, and that wonderful rename-and-mode-aware git-diff, 
> > and the git-merge-file program, all of which can operate outside of a 
> > git repository. (Take that, hg!)
> 
> As long as git-diff lists all added files in a second non-git dirtree
> as "/dev/null" when doing
> git-diff --name-status -B -M -C dir1 dir2
> its usefulness is limited.
> 
> git-diff --name-status -B -M -C dir1 dir2
> D	dir1/auctex-11.84/CHANGES
> D	dir1/auctex-11.84/COPYING
> D	dir1/auctex-11.84/ChangeLog
> 
> [...]

Yes, directories are a problem. There our DWIMery does not really help. 
But there is a solution: say

	git diff --name-status --no-index -B -M -C dir1 dir2

Hth,
Dscho