git-diff-tree updates..
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:41:57
I've just fixed two annoyances of mine with git-diff-tree, which sadly caused me to break some syntax. In particular, diff-tree for some unfathomable reason (probably incipient braindamage in yours truly) used a single dash "-" to mark the end of command line arguments, rather than the "--" that everybody else uses. I hope nobody depended on it, because I fixed it. The other thing I did was to allow a single SHA1, and then consider that to be equivalent to a one-line "--stdin" thing. Ie you can now do git-diff-tree -v -p HEAD and it will do what you'd expect it to do, ie it should be equivalent to cat .git/HEAD | git-diff-tree -v -p --stdin (apart from a silly bug which I'll fix shortly). The latter means that if you actually want to track a _file_ named HEAD (or anything else that might trigger as a reference), you'd need to do git-rev-list HEAD | git-diff-tree -v -p --stdin -- HEAD but I'm considering making the single-dash thing be equivalent to the combination "--stdin", and not allow SHA1 naming after it, so that this could be shortened to just be git-rev-list HEAD | git-diff-tree -v -p - HEAD (but I wanted to make the "-" semantics change be a two-phase thing). Linus