From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 06 Dec 2016 20:22:25 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] stash: disable renames when calling git-diff
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 ;-)