From: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
To: "Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy" <pclouds@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] diff --no-index: support more than one file pair
Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2012 10:14:21 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <vpq39bll1ua.fsf@bauges.imag.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1326359371-13528-1-git-send-email-pclouds@gmail.com> ("Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy"'s message of "Thu, 12 Jan 2012 16:09:31 +0700")
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> writes:
> This allows you to do
>
> git diff --no-index file1.old file1.new file2.old file2.new...
>
> It could be seen as an abuse of "git --no-index", but it's very
> tempting considering many bells and whistles git's diff machinery
> provides.
I find this very, very unintuitive. I tried with GNU diff:
diff 1 2 3 4
and it complained with "diff: extra operand `3'". I find
git diff --no-index file1.old file1.new
git diff --no-index file2.old file2.new
far more intuitive, less error prone (when you start having a
non-trivial list of arguments, it's hard to tell which is the new and
which is the old visually), ... So I'm curious why you prefer your
syntax.
--
Matthieu Moy
http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-01-12 9:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-01-12 9:09 [PATCH] diff --no-index: support more than one file pair Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2012-01-12 9:14 ` Matthieu Moy [this message]
2012-01-12 9:17 ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2012-01-12 9:30 ` Matthieu Moy
2012-01-12 17:40 ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2012-01-12 18:26 ` Matthieu Moy
2012-01-12 16:37 ` Neal Kreitzinger
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