On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 12:13 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> Oddly, 'git diff file1 file2' *doesn't* work when file1 and file2 are >> in a working tree; git tries to diff something, apparently, but I >> don't know what. > > Heh, I thought you've been using git long enough that you sh/would know > that you are comparing the index and the working tree, using "file1" and > "file2" as pathspecs. Ha, of course. And I do that all the time, so it's silly that I somehow forgot for the duration of that email. The real surprise was that this *wasn't* the meaning when I was outside a git tree :) Have fun, Avery -- 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