Re: [PATCH] diff: resurrect the traditional empty "diff --git" behaviour

From: Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@imag.fr>
Date: Sep 3, 2007, 08:09 UTC
Message-ID: <vpqveasmaqo.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>
In-Reply-To: <7vir6vw4x2.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

I fully agree with the two patches (that's what I've been arguing for hours last time we talked about it, so no big surprise ;-) ).

One documentation nitpick :

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

> +diff.autorefreshindex::
> +	When using `git diff` to compare with work tree
> +	files, do not consider stat-only change as changed.
> +	Instead, silently run `git update-index --refresh`

I'd rather avoid talking about plumbing in the documentation of porcelain, so I'd say "silently refreshes the index's stat information".

But I'm arguably wrong on that point, I let you decide.

Thanks,

-- 
Matthieu