Re: git-diff on touched files: bug or feature?

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Aug 2, 2007, 10:48 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0708021147110.14781@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <vpqbqdq45ua.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>

Hi,

On Thu, 2 Aug 2007, Matthieu Moy wrote:

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> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
> 
> > On Thu, 2 Aug 2007, Matthieu Moy wrote:
> >
> >> > If the feature still makes sense in the modern world is a
> >> > different story, but I do find it useful.
> >> 
> >> I understand that it can be usefull, but I really don't like having it
> >> by default (is there a way to deactivate it BTW?).
> >
> > Yes.  Just call "git status" and be done with it.
> 
> That's not what I mean (my original message mentionned that already
> BTW). By "deactivate", I mean "make git-diff never show empty diffs".
> I don't want to run two commands where I need only one.

Then don't touch the files you do not want to touch! Or if you want to have it convenient, and have a script that touches everything, even if it does not change the contents, just add "git add -u" at the end of the script". Not that difficult.

Ciao, Dscho