Re: Diffs "from" working directory
From: J. Bruce Fields <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:42:12
On Sun, Nov 20, 2005 at 06:17:15PM +0100, Blaisorblade wrote:
I've given a look at commit fcc1ad70be5ff89996358b6d770cd229fec2a3ba, and while it may or may not be the right thing to do, there's a misunderstanding at the base.
What misunderstanding? Could you quote it?
quoted hunk
For instance, in the stg tree, before that patch, I can do: $ echo ciao >> README $ stg diff -r HEAD: $ stg diff -r HEADdiff --git a/README b/README index 184ded8..adb3970 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README@@ -12,3 +12,4 @@ StGIT commands. For the latest version see http://www.procode.org/stgit/ For a tutorial see http://wiki.procode.org/cgi-bin/wiki.cgi/StGIT_Tutorial +ciao
That's a diff *to* the working directory. My complaint was that there
wasn't a convenient way to get a diff *from* the working directory.
It's nice to have a convenient shorthand for the current working
directory, and since there's already a shorthand for the HEAD ("HEAD")
it seemed more sensible to make "" the current working directory.
It's a minor point, but it seems convenient.
--b.