From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: git-diff between /dev/null and blob
Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2006 14:52:50 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <eb7d2s$cq2$1@sea.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 7vejvt8s24.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net
Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> writes:
> git diff v0.99:pull.h fetch.h
>
> echo extra >>Makefile && git diff :0:Makefile HEAD^^:Makefile
>
> H=`(cat Makefile; echo extra) | git hash-object -w --stdin`
> echo "100644 $H 2 foobar" | git update-index --add --index-info
> git diff :2:foobar :Makefile
>
>> git-diff doesn't understand :<stage>:<filename> and :<filename> for
>> accessing index version of blob (git-cat-file for example understands
>> it).
>
> You probably got this impression from a botched experiment or
> something, but this statement is wrong as demonstrated above.
Right, sorry.
And you can write ./<filename> to distinguish it from revision name, so
proposed ::<filename> extension is not needed.
--
Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
ShadeHawk on #git
prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-08-07 12:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-07-31 1:07 git-diff between /dev/null and blob Jakub Narebski
2006-07-31 6:50 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-08-06 21:02 ` Jakub Narebski
2006-08-06 21:36 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-08-07 12:52 ` Jakub Narebski [this message]
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