From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 23:53:06 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] diff --relative: output paths as relative to the current subdirectory
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.1.00.0802121550570.2920@woody.linux-foundation.org>
In-Reply-To: <7vfxvx211k.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>



On Tue, 12 Feb 2008, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> 
> Your example is shorter to type as:
> 
> 	(cd drivers/scsi && git diff --relative a..b --)

No it isn't. The above doesn't even work for bare repositories, or when 
you want to look at a branch that has a different directory structure than 
the currently-checked-out one.

				Linus