Re: [PATCH] diff --no-index: support more than one file pair

From: Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Date: Jan 12, 2012, 09:14 UTC
Message-ID: <vpq39bll1ua.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>
In-Reply-To: <1326359371-13528-1-git-send-email-pclouds@gmail.com>

Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> writes:

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> This allows you to do
>
> git diff --no-index file1.old file1.new file2.old file2.new...
>
> It could be seen as an abuse of "git --no-index", but it's very
> tempting considering many bells and whistles git's diff machinery
> provides.

I find this very, very unintuitive. I tried with GNU diff:

diff 1 2 3 4

and it complained with "diff: extra operand `3'". I find

git diff --no-index file1.old file1.new git diff --no-index file2.old file2.new

far more intuitive, less error prone (when you start having a non-trivial list of arguments, it's hard to tell which is the new and which is the old visually), ... So I'm curious why you prefer your syntax.

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Matthieu Moy
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