Re: Odd "git diff" breakage

Linus Torvalds [off-list ref] writes:

I hit this oddity when not remembering the right syntax for --color-words..

Try this (outside of a git repository):

   touch a b
   git diff -u --color=words a b

and watch it scroll (infinitely) printing out

   error: option `color' expects "always", "auto", or "never"

forever.

I haven't tried to root-cause it, since I'm supposed to be merging stuff..

                Linus

Hmph, interesting.  "outside a repository" is the key, it seems.
And I can see it all the way down to 1.7.3 (at least).