Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes: > Here it is in patch form. Perhaps I am missing some subtle case that > diff-index would not handle, but it does pass the test suite. And > looking over the original thread, I don't see any particular reason to > prefer git-diff. Ah, our mails crossed ;-) I am reasonably sure that "diff HEAD" and "diff-index HEAD" would behave identically. > @@ -115,7 +115,7 @@ create_stash () { > git read-tree --index-output="$TMPindex" -m $i_tree && > GIT_INDEX_FILE="$TMPindex" && > export GIT_INDEX_FILE && > - git diff --name-only -z HEAD -- >"$TMP-stagenames" && > + git diff-index --name-only -z HEAD -- >"$TMP-stagenames" && > git update-index -z --add --remove --stdin <"$TMP-stagenames" && > git write-tree && > rm -f "$TMPindex" Will queue this one instead. Thanks.