was going over some hooks and writing some tutorials for some of the commit-related, client-side hooks, and was wondering (perhaps stupidly) why the pre-commit.sample hook uses, as its last line: exec git diff-index --check --cached $against -- ^^^^^^^^^^ as in, could this not be done equivalently with just git diff, not git diff-index? i just did a quick test and it seems to do the same thing, but i've never taken a close look at git diff-index before so i may just be clueless about some important distinction. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca/dokuwiki Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday ========================================================================