Re: [PATCH] stash: disable renames when calling git-diff

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Dec 6, 2016, 20:22 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqq37i024fy.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <20161206201130.azfmqvtk3iettlx7@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> I think you are right that diff-index could work, though. I always
> forget that without "--cached", diff-index looks at the working tree
> files.

I'll reword the log message while queuing. It was super surprising to me to hear that there was something "git diff" did that three "git diff-*" plumbing brothers couldn't do at the basic "what to compare with what" level, as I wrote all four ;-)