Re: What's the difference between `git show branch:file | diff -u - file` vs `git diff branch file`?

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Marat Radchenko <marat@slonopotamus.org>

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Aug 23, 2011, 18:21 UTC

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Junio C Hamano <gitster <at> pobox.com> writes:

> Not necessarily, especially when pathspec is given like the original post,
> i.e. "git diff $tree_ish -- $path". We would need to open tree objects
> that lead to the leaf of the $path and a blob, but other objects won't be
> needed.

And git show branch:path already has that code.