From: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood123@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2026 15:45:42 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/4] t: test failed "stash apply --index"
Message-ID: <a9c44afa-583e-45ad-9447-c00144141c32@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CALnO6CDTaunaBby+Gy4B5vxiHES3DHpybv8Eq2JPvQ1cteGzrw@mail.gmail.com>

Hi Ben

On 25/09/2026 14:36, D. Ben Knoble wrote:
> 
> So overall, I'm thinking
> 
> - (old) diff-files only shows file is changed
> - diff-files -p shows us changes for file, better (and won't show the
> other 2 files unless they've become unstaged)
> - diff-index --cached HEAD helps us check all the index changes

I think that sounds reasonable, we can delete the index lines from the 
patch output with sed to make it easier to compare them.

Thanks

Phillip

> Phew! Thanks for reading my rambling thinking aloud :)
>