From: "Santi Béjar" <santi@agolina.net>
To: Yann Dirson <dirson@bertin.fr>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Undocumented git-diff syntax
Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2010 15:59:18 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTinqPiGf1nbo0oOvDD5edgLBdO8xZfjGeFC4q0MU@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101011150342.292ad725@chalon.bertin.fr>
On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 3:03 PM, Yann Dirson <dirson@bertin.fr> wrote:
[...]
>
> Another thought: if we can already compare arbitrary blobs, maybe it would not be so hard to
> extend it to take arbitrary contents that are not stored as blobs yet ? (a quick hack would be to
> insert an object for them, but that does not look too clean...). As a use-case, I'm often found generating diffs from within custom scripts, from contents derived from a git repo, but can't use all the bells and whistles (--color, --color-words, etc), just because I have to use plain diff;
> that makes the output of those scripts very inconsistent with native git commands.
Are you talking about "git diff --no-index"?
HTH,
Santi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-11 13:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-11 13:03 Undocumented git-diff syntax Yann Dirson
2010-10-11 13:59 ` Santi Béjar [this message]
2010-10-11 14:17 ` Yann Dirson
2010-10-11 14:52 ` Santi Béjar
2010-10-11 16:02 ` [PATCH 0/4] " Jonathan Nieder
2010-10-11 16:03 ` [PATCH 1/5] Documentation: gitrevisions is in section 7 Jonathan Nieder
2010-10-11 20:49 ` Sverre Rabbelier
2010-10-11 16:04 ` [PATCH 2/4] Documentation: diff can compare blobs Jonathan Nieder
2010-10-11 16:05 ` [PATCH 3/4] Documentation: expand 'git diff' SEE ALSO section Jonathan Nieder
2010-10-11 16:06 ` [PATCH 4/4] Documentation: update "git diff --no-index" description Jonathan Nieder
2010-10-11 16:07 ` [RFC/PATCH 5/4] Documentation: flesh out diff --no-index description Jonathan Nieder
2010-10-13 22:40 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-10-11 18:52 ` [PATCH 0/4] Re: Undocumented git-diff syntax Yann Dirson
2010-10-11 20:56 ` Sverre Rabbelier
2010-10-11 16:57 ` Jakub Narebski
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