On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 5:06 PM, John Keeping <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 01:39:17PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>>
>> What is the situation when you do not want symbolic links?
>
> When you're not comparing the working tree.
>
> If we can reliably say "the RHS is the working tree" then it could be
> unconditional, but I haven't thought about how to do that - I can't see
> a particularly easy way to check for that;
Agreed. From what I can see, the only form of the diff options that
compares against the working tree is
git difftool -d [--options] <commit> [--] [<path>...]
At first, I thought that the following cases were also working tree
cases, but actually they use the HEAD commit.
git difftool -d commit1..
git difftool -d commit1...
> is it sufficient to say
> "there is no more than one non-option to the left of '--' and '--cached'
> is not among the options"?
An alternative approach would be to reuse git-diff's option parsing
and make it tell git-difftool when git-diff sees the working tree
case. At this point, I haven't seen an obvious place in the source
where git-diff makes that choice, but if someone could point me in the
right direction, I think I'd actually prefer that approach. What do
you think?
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