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From: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
To: Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
	Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>,
	Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 'git diff' against files outside a git repo
Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2010 09:38:37 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CA049FD.5040100@drmicha.warpmail.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikJ-SN5xmwqhEHcESfQCWvGjSHp3OK1Hi4+0jBL@mail.gmail.com>

Avery Pennarun venit, vidit, dixit 26.09.2010 11:38:
> On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 12:13 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>> Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> Oddly, 'git diff file1 file2' *doesn't* work when file1 and file2 are
>>> in a working tree; git tries to diff something, apparently, but I
>>> don't know what.
>>
>> Heh, I thought you've been using git long enough that you sh/would know
>> that you are comparing the index and the working tree, using "file1" and
>> "file2" as pathspecs.
> 
> Ha, of course.  And I do that all the time, so it's silly that I
> somehow forgot for the duration of that email.
> 
> The real surprise was that this *wasn't* the meaning when I was
> outside a git tree :)

Well, DWIM really is DWYTIM ;)

Michael

  reply	other threads:[~2010-09-27  7:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-09-24 22:23 'git diff' against files outside a git repo Avery Pennarun
2010-09-24 22:30 ` Elijah Newren
2010-09-25  7:45   ` Avery Pennarun
2010-09-26  7:13     ` Junio C Hamano
2010-09-26  9:38       ` Avery Pennarun
2010-09-27  7:38         ` Michael J Gruber [this message]
2010-09-24 22:30 ` Brandon Casey

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