Re: cvs diff -l equivalent?

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Jul 30, 2008, 18:18 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.LSU.1.00.0807302016160.3486@wbgn129.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <20080730155853.GA27166@cuci.nl>

Hi,

On Wed, 30 Jul 2008, Stephen R. van den Berg wrote:

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> Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> >On Wed, 30 Jul 2008, Stephen R. van den Berg wrote:
> >> Someone popped this question on me.
> 
> >I do not know cvs that well anymore.  So I do not know what -l does.  Care 
> >to explain?
> 
> Usage: cvs diff [-lR] [-k kopt] [format_options]
>     [[-r rev1 | -D date1] [-r rev2 | -D date2]] [files...]
>         -l      Local directory only, not recursive
> 
> It shows the diff for all files in the current directory, nothing
> deeper, nothing higher.

Okay.  This is my version of a solution:

	$ find . -maxdepth 1 -type f -print0 | xargs -0 git diff

And no, there is not an easier way. Probably since Git has a snapshot based idea of the contents, i.e. it does not think that the files in a revision are decoupled. Not even the ones in different directories.

Ciao, Dscho