From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2015 23:54:11 GMT
Subject: Re: Salvaging borked project history
Message-ID: <xmqqlhjkjkkc.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <54EFB0AE.6000600@free.fr>

Mason <slash.tmp@free.fr> writes:

>> Mason wrote:
>> 
>>> I was planning to write 'git diff -q commit^ commit'
>>> to test for empty commits.
>> 
>> s/-q/--quiet/ and all is well, no?
>
> Doh! I've no idea how I missed these...

Yeah, this is one of the unfortunate corners of Git that I can
apologize but cannot do much more than that about (in other words,
making "git diff -q" as a short-hand for "git diff --quiet" is not
acceptable) due to backward compatibility and consistency concerns.