Re: [PATCH v2 4/7] diff: die when failing to read index in git-diff builtin

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Aug 22, 2023, 23:27 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqq7cpmirnx.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <20230821201727.GD1798590@coredump.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> lib-ification purposes, at which point this code would already be doing
> the right thing).

Yup, I very much like that approach and attitude. Proactively doing the right thing even if the other parts of the code is not yet ready. Good.

Thanks.

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