Junio C Hamano <junkio@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Shawn Pearce <spearce@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > git-diff Makefile > > git-diff HEAD Makefile > > > > ? (Which is rather ugly as what if you have a tracked file actually > > called HEAD and you want the first form when the commit-ish is > > omitted.) So accepting an optional commit-ish before the filename > > would be in line with what git-diff accepts today. > > The use of "start of filelist" marker "--" is optional when > unambiguous, and that is why "git-diff Makefile" works. To view > the change you still haven't update-index'ed to the path called > "HEAD", you would naturally say "git-diff -- HEAD" Naturally. :-) After getting along fine with `git-diff foo` for months I would natually not be surprised when `git-diff foo` didn't work because I performed a `git-checkout -b foo pu` one day. -- Shawn. - : send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html