On Fri, Jul 05, 2024 at 11:28:23AM +0100, Tiago de Bem Natel de Moura wrote: > What did you do before the bug happened? (Steps to reproduce your issue) > The config `diff.orderfile` is not being honored in the `git diff-tree` command > as stated by the documentation. Makes sense... the diff.orderFile configuration is part of the "UI" set of diff.* configuration options, which are honored by porcelain commands like commit, diff, log, etc., but not by plumbing commands like diff-tree. I think from 6d8940b562 (diff: add diff.orderfile configuration variable, 2013-12-18) adding it to the UI-only configuration set was intentional, but it is somewhat awkward that we respect -O but not the configuration it falls back on. So I suppose the question is whether supporting -O from diff-tree is sensible. If it is, then reading the diff.orderFile configuration option is a no-brainer. But if it isn't, then we should probably not make a bad situation worse by adding support for it. Thanks, Taylor
