On Tuesday, November 27, 2012, David Aguilar wrote: > It seems that there is an edge case here that we are not > accounting for: unmodified worktree paths, when checked out > into the temporary directory, can be edited by the tool when > comparing against older commits. These edits will be lost. Yes. That is exactly my desired use case. I want to make edits while I'm reviewing the diff. > > When we can do that then we avoid needing to have a temporary > directory altogether for any dir-diffs that involve the worktree. I think the temporary directory is still a good thing. Without it, the directory diff tool would have no way to distinguish a file added in the diff from a file that was preexisting and unmodified. -- Matt McClure http://www.matthewlmcclure.com http://www.mapmyfitness.com/profile/matthewlmcclure -- 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