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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Peter Oberndorfer <kumbayo84@arcor.de>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: git-gui: textconv not used on unstaged files
Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2012 12:54:11 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vk3t8qe4s.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <50B3D0D2.6060308@arcor.de> (Peter Oberndorfer's message of "Mon, 26 Nov 2012 21:28:02 +0100")

Peter Oberndorfer <kumbayo84@arcor.de> writes:

> Does anybody have a idea which git command would output the diff
> of a untracked file against /dev/null?

The "--no-index" option is meant as a bolt-on to let you use various
features of "git diff" that is missing from other people's "diff" in
a context where git does not know anything about that file.  It
should be usable even outside a git repository.

    $ git diff --no-index /dev/null new-file.txt

I do not know offhand (and didn't bother to check) if textconv
applies, though.  It does need access to a git repository as it
reads from the $GIT_DIR/config to learn what to do.

  reply	other threads:[~2012-11-26 20:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-10-24 18:33 git-gui: textconv not used on unstaged files Peter Oberndorfer
2012-11-26 20:28 ` Peter Oberndorfer
2012-11-26 20:54   ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2012-11-27 20:37     ` Peter Oberndorfer

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