We can invoke no-index mode in two ways: by an explicit request from the user, or implicitly by noticing that we have two paths, and at least one is outside the repository. If the user already told us --no-index, there is no need for us to do the implicit test at all. However, we currently do, and downgrade our "explicit" to DIFF_NO_INDEX_IMPLICIT. This doesn't have any user-visible behavior, though it's not immediately obvious why. We only trigger the implicit check when we have exactly two non-option arguments. And the only code that cares about implicit versus explicit is an error message that we show when we _don't_ have two non-option arguments. However, it's worth fixing anyway. Besides being slightly more efficient, it makes the code easier to follow, which will help when we modify it in future patches. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> --- builtin/diff.c | 25 +++++++++++++------------ 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-) diff --git a/builtin/diff.c b/builtin/diff.c index b7a9405..a31643c 100644 --- a/builtin/diff.c +++ b/builtin/diff.c @@ -301,20 +301,21 @@ int cmd_diff(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix) break; } - if (!no_index) + if (!no_index) { prefix = setup_git_directory_gently(&nongit); - /* - * Treat git diff with at least one path outside of the - * repo the same as if the command would have been executed - * outside of a git repository. In this case it behaves - * the same way as "git diff --no-index <a> <b>", which acts - * as a colourful "diff" replacement. - */ - if (nongit || ((argc == i + 2) && - (!path_inside_repo(prefix, argv[i]) || - !path_inside_repo(prefix, argv[i + 1])))) - no_index = DIFF_NO_INDEX_IMPLICIT; + /* + * Treat git diff with at least one path outside of the + * repo the same as if the command would have been executed + * outside of a git repository. In this case it behaves + * the same way as "git diff --no-index <a> <b>", which acts + * as a colourful "diff" replacement. + */ + if (nongit || ((argc == i + 2) && + (!path_inside_repo(prefix, argv[i]) || + !path_inside_repo(prefix, argv[i + 1])))) + no_index = DIFF_NO_INDEX_IMPLICIT; + } if (!no_index) gitmodules_config(); -- 2.10.0.230.g6f8d04b