From: Matthieu Moy Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2012 09:30:36 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] diff --no-index: support more than one file pair Message-ID: In-Reply-To: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy writes: > Single operation has its advantages: > > - one pager > - one stat and summary I buy these, and I understand why they apply to "git diff" and not GNU diff. > - might be easier to script (just throw them all to xargs) I don't see a use-case where a command produces old1 new1 old2 new2, but if there is one, then "| xargs -n 2 diff" is the solution. You don't need your patch. > - hell, i might even benefit from git copy/modify detection I don't see how, if you specify explicitely the pairs (old, new). You may have such benefit if you let the command-line express "here's a bunch of old files, and a bunch of new ones", but not with your proposed syntax. -- Matthieu Moy http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/