Tim Henigan <tim.henigan@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > However, when 'difftool --dir-diff' is run from a subdirectory of the > Git repository, there are problems. > - The temporary index file generated by 'git update-index' appears > to be correct. > - 'git checkout-index --all --prefix=$tmp' command does not work > (output tmp dir is empty). Hrmph. $ rm -fr /tmp/xyz $ cd Documentation $ git checkout-index --all --prefix=/tmp/xyz/ $ ls -F /tmp/xyz Documentation/ $ rm -fr /tmp/xyz $ GIT_DIR=$(pwd)/../.git GIT_WORK_TREE=$(pwd) \ git checkout-index --all --prefix=/tmp/xyz/ $ ls -FC /tmp/xyz | head -2 abspath.c git-merge-octopus.sh* reflog-walk.c aclocal.m4 git-merge-one-file.sh* reflog-walk.h Be sure to have the trailing slash in $tmp. -- 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