Sebastian Schuberth <sschuberth@xxxxxxxxx> writes: >> The discussion in the last few messages in this thread speculates that the >> external programs are more likely to expect representations suitable in >> the work tree, aka "smudged", than "clean" one. It would be nice to get a >> datapoint from you as the original reporter to confirm or refute that >> speculation. > > I agree to the speculations. IMHO calling an external diff tool with > two revisions of a file should result in the same as e.g. checking out > the two revisions in two different working trees and then launching > the user's external diff tool on the two working tree files. Ok. -- 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