Re: [PATCH] difftool: Make directory diff symlink work tree

On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 05:12:28PM -0600, Matt McClure wrote:

On Mar 12, 2013, at 1:25 PM, John Keeping [off-list ref] wrote:

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When I tried this I got the expected behaviour even without this patch.

    git diff --raw commit

emits the null SHA1 if the working tree file's stat differs from the
blob corresponding to commit. Is that the case you observed?

Yes, although it's slightly more subtle than that - the null SHA1 only
occurs if the working tree file has unstaged changes; if you add the
changes to the index then the null SHA1 is no longer used since the blob
is now available in Git's object store.


John