On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 4:23 PM, Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm interested in using 'git diff' on some files that aren't actually > inside a git repo at all. ÂSpecifically, the --color-words and > --word-diff-regex are really cool and I happen to have a use for them > on files that aren't stored verbatim in git. ÂAs a whole, git's > implementation of diff seems to be the fastest-moving one out there, > so I'd rather use it instead of another random diff implementation. > <snip> > Is there already a way to get 'git diff' to do this? > > If not, would it be sensible to extend git-diff to do comparison > between two outside files? Isn't this what git diff --no-index ... does? -- 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