Avery Pennarun wrote: > I'm not sure why I'd want to know accurately > whether or not my file matches the index, but then have gitk fail to > tell me about *what* doesn't match. Ah, yes, I am not thinking very well. Please forget what I said before. v1.5.3-rc5~10 (git-diff: squelch "empty" diffs, 2007-08-03) has the answer for your question. I am not sure I agree with its conclusion. v1.5.3~8 (git-diff: resurrect the traditional empty "diff --git" behaviour, 2007-08-31) tweaked the porcelain more by dropping the warning message and adding the diff.autorefreshindex variable. What is missing is a --refresh-index option for diff-files and diff-index, to make it easy for porcelain, especially long-running porcelain like gitk. Jonathan -- To unsubscribe from this list: 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