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Subject: Re: git-diff between /dev/null and blob
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Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> writes:=20

>=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0git diff v0.99:pull.h fetch.h
>
>         echo extra >>Makefile && git diff :0:Makefile HEAD^^:Makefile
>=20
>         H=3D`(cat Makefile; echo extra) | git hash-object -w --stdin`
>       echo "100644 $H 2       foobar" | git update-index --add --inde=
x-info
>       git diff :2:foobar :Makefile
>=20
>> git-diff doesn't understand :<stage>:<filename> and :<filename> for
>> accessing index version of blob (git-cat-file for example understand=
s
>> it).
>=20
> 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.

--=20
Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
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