Re: git-diff new files (without using index)

Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] writes:

I suspect that it's probably half superstition and half disease
to wish for "diff /dev/null new-file".

Er, please, a bit of consideration.  It's not superstition, it's not a disease.

I _want to use the index_:  I want to stage changes, and then make more
changes, and just generally be able to treat these three states (HEAD,
indexed, non-indexed) as points which can be used as inputs to git-diff
-- and I want _applyable patch files_ as the output from git-diff, not
pretty diffs for browsing.

Thanks,

-Miles

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