From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
To: Bert Wesarg <bert.wesarg@googlemail.com>
Cc: "Git Mailing List" <git@vger.kernel.org>,
"Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy" <pclouds@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: diff for deleted file only, when changed to directory
Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2010 02:21:03 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101208082103.GA4927@burratino> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimXOKC_9TJU1foNkTqPHouFPouzZw3XU_9Za=na@mail.gmail.com>
Bert Wesarg wrote:
> git
> diff --cached -- foo shows me the diff for both the file foo and file
> foo/bar.
[...]
> But for the case
> file->directory, I would like to see only the deleted diff, not
> recursing into the directory.
If I understand correctly, this is a documentation bug and feature
request.
The documentation bug: the "git diff" documentation says something
like
git diff [--options] [<tree>[..<tree>]] [--] [<path>...]
but the <path>s after "--" are actually patterns (path specifiers).
See [1] ([RFD] git glossary: define pathspec, 2010-11-29).
The feature request: there is no way to specify an "exact match"
or "negative match" when specifying paths. At least "negative
match" has been suggested before.
[1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/162379
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-12-08 8:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-12-08 8:12 diff for deleted file only, when changed to directory Bert Wesarg
2010-12-08 8:21 ` Jonathan Nieder [this message]
2010-12-08 9:29 ` Bert Wesarg
2010-12-08 9:56 ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
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