On Sat, 28 Jul 2007, Jeff King wrote: > > The '-r' now seems to be superfluous. For diffing against (or using) the index, the "-r" is superfluous. Why? Because the index is always the *full* list of files. It's "flat". However, when you diff two trees, the -r makes a difference. So I think you'd find a difference if you actually diffed two commits with "git diff tree2..tree2". Linus - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html