Re: cvs diff -l equivalent?

["Stephen R. van den Berg" <srb@cuci.nl>]

Thomas Rast wrote:
>Stephen R. van den Berg wrote:
>> Someone popped this question on me.  The closest I got was:

>>    git diff .

>> But that still recurses.  Any solutions without patching?

>Maybe a scripted version?  For just 'git diff .', this should work:

>  git diff $(git ls-files . | grep -v /)

git diff $(git ls-files --exclude-standard . | fgrep -v /)

comes the closest, so it seems.

>That will still do the wrong thing if you diff against an older commit
>with a different list of files.  In that case you need the list of
>files in the other side of the diff too:

>  git diff HEAD^..  -- $(git ls-files . | grep -v /; git ls-tree HEAD^ | cut -f2)

This doesn't seem to do the right thing, it messes up with which commit we
diff.
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Sincerely,
           Stephen R. van den Berg.

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