Re: Odd "git diff" breakage
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: 2016-06-15 23:00:35
On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 11:30 AM, Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] wrote:
Hmph, interesting. "outside a repository" is the key, it seems.
Well, you can do it inside a repository too, but then you need to use
the "--no-index" flag to get the "diff two files" behavior. It will
result in the same infinite error messages.
Linus