When trying "just to see it it would work", I noticed that the following syntax appears to do what it looks like it should do. git diff v1.7.3-rc0:Documentation/RelNotes-1.7.3.txt v1.7.3:Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.3.txt It is a useful thing, but I could not find described in the manpage. I have not dig this part of diff yet, and maybe someone would have already a description of it (does it simply allow to diff two arbitrary blobs ?). Is it here just by some magic side-effect ? :) 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. Would there be any objections to moving into that direction ? -- Yann Dirson - Bertin Technologies -- 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