From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2006 12:52:50 GMT
Subject: Re: git-diff between /dev/null and blob
Message-ID: <eb7d2s$cq2$1@sea.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <7vejvt8s24.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> writes: 

>        git diff v0.99:pull.h fetch.h
>
>         echo extra >>Makefile && git diff :0:Makefile HEAD^^:Makefile
> 
>         H=`(cat Makefile; echo extra) | git hash-object -w --stdin`
>       echo "100644 $H 2       foobar" | git update-index --add --index-info
>       git diff :2:foobar :Makefile
> 
>> git-diff doesn't understand :<stage>:<filename> and :<filename> for
>> accessing index version of blob (git-cat-file for example understands
>> it).
> 
> You probably got this impression from a botched experiment or
> something, but this statement is wrong as demonstrated above.

Right, sorry.

And you can write ./<filename> to distinguish it from revision name, so
proposed ::<filename> extension is not needed.

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Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
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