"Mike Coleman" <tutufan@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> At least in version 1.5.4.2, git-diff silently fails when not run
> inside a repository. It should give an error diagnostic, especially
> since "no output" would otherwise be a meaningful response.
Unfortunately this does not have enough information to go by, as unlike
many other programs, "git diff" contains a hack to be usable as a better
(for certain definition of "better" I may not necessarily agree with) GNU
diff replacement when run outside a repository.
i.e.
mkdir -p /var/tmp/junk
cd /var/tmp/junk
rm -fr .git ;# make sure it is not a repository
echo >a hello
echo >b world
git diff --color a b
is supposed to work.
--
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
