From: David Tweed Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2007 13:16:14 GMT Subject: Re: behaviour of git diff, GIT_DIR & checked out tree Message-ID: In-Reply-To: On 9/24/07, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > Yes, this is fully expected. > > The @{time} notation accesses the _reflogs_, which are purely local > beasts. They are not transmitted when cloning. Thanks of your reply; however I suspect this isn't the problem here since I just tried with just master and I get the same thing. To be clear, I'm doing this on the same machine with the same user account as the git directory, just from a directory outside the git tree, eg, the git tracked tree is in $HOME/V and I'm in $HOME/A running env GIT_DIR=$HOME/V/.git git diff master As a guess without looking at the code, what I imagine is happening is that git diff limits showing changes to the directory tree below $PWD, and when $PWD isn't actually within the git dir that ends up somehow as an empty tree. -- cheers, dave tweed__________________________ david.tweed@gmail.com Rm 124, School of Systems Engineering, University of Reading. "we had no idea that when we added templates we were adding a Turing- complete compile-time language." -- C++ standardisation committee