Re: being nice to patch(1)

Hi David,

[please Cc me, since I will be more likely to miss replies if you do not]

On Tue, 3 Jul 2007, David Kastrup wrote:

Johannes Schindelin [off-list ref] writes:

quoted

But maybe they would be willing to install git to get that wonderful 
git-apply program, and that wonderful rename-and-mode-aware git-diff, 
and the git-merge-file program, all of which can operate outside of a 
git repository. (Take that, hg!)

As long as git-diff lists all added files in a second non-git dirtree
as "/dev/null" when doing
git-diff --name-status -B -M -C dir1 dir2
its usefulness is limited.

git-diff --name-status -B -M -C dir1 dir2
D	dir1/auctex-11.84/CHANGES
D	dir1/auctex-11.84/COPYING
D	dir1/auctex-11.84/ChangeLog

[...]

Yes, directories are a problem. There our DWIMery does not really help. 
But there is a solution: say

	git diff --name-status --no-index -B -M -C dir1 dir2

Hth,
Dscho