Re: [PATCH] diff --no-index: support more than one file pair

Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy [off-list ref] writes:

This allows you to do

git diff --no-index file1.old file1.new file2.old file2.new...

It could be seen as an abuse of "git --no-index", but it's very
tempting considering many bells and whistles git's diff machinery
provides.

I find this very, very unintuitive. I tried with GNU diff:

diff 1 2 3 4

and it complained with "diff: extra operand `3'". I find

git diff --no-index file1.old file1.new
git diff --no-index file2.old file2.new

far more intuitive, less error prone (when you start having a
non-trivial list of arguments, it's hard to tell which is the new and
which is the old visually), ... So I'm curious why you prefer your
syntax.

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