Yurii Shevtsov <ungetch@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> As I understood there are four unsolved microprojects. I think I can
> deal with "Make "git diff --no-index $directory $file" DWIM better"
> but I don't understand what exactly should I do.
OK.
> I tried to run 'git
> diff --no-index ~/git/ diff.h' cmd on git sources but it says 'error:
> file/directory conflict: /home/localhost/git/, diff.h'.
There you have it. Do you think erroring out is useful?
Imagine a user who is used to the way ordinary "diff" command (not
"git diff") operates. What would be the behaviour that may match
the expectation of such a user better?
In other words, if you have the source tree of git in ~/git and
then you have "diff.h" in your current directory, perhaps prepared
by doing something like this:
$ cd $HOME
$ git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git git
$ mkdir junk
$ cp git/diff.h junk
$ cd junk
$ echo hello >>diff.h
what would the ordinary "diff" say when you do these commands (still
in that ~/junk directory)?
$ diff -u ~/git diff.h
$ diff -u diff.h ~/git
Wouldn't it be wonderful if "git diff --no-index" worked the same
way as these?
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