From: Marat Radchenko <marat@slonopotamus.org>
Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2011 18:21:48 GMT
Subject: Re: What's the difference between `git show branch:file | diff -u - file` vs `git diff branch file`?
Message-ID: <loom.20110823T201645-980@post.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <7vk4a4rqvb.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

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.