On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 9:34 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> While this works, it feels sub-optimal. Is there a better / smarter way?
>
> I do not think so; you want three things to match and you have a way
> to compare two things at a time.
Right. I was just thinking if there's a lesser known command like "git
diff --no-index", but instead of taking two paths, take just one path
and a commit.
> By the way, I think your second check should compare
>
> rev-parse HEAD^{tree} $that_commit^{tree}
>
> as you are checking if the tree exactly matches.
In fact, I was considering to use "git diff HEAD $that_commit" as I
don't really care whether the SHA1s are equal, but just about the file
contents / tree.
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Sebastian Schuberth
