Jeff King [off-list ref] writes:
Here it is in patch form. Perhaps I am missing some subtle case that
diff-index would not handle, but it does pass the test suite. And
looking over the original thread, I don't see any particular reason to
prefer git-diff.
Ah, our mails crossed ;-) I am reasonably sure that "diff HEAD" and
"diff-index HEAD" would behave identically.
quoted hunk
@@ -115,7 +115,7 @@ create_stash () {
git read-tree --index-output="$TMPindex" -m $i_tree &&
GIT_INDEX_FILE="$TMPindex" &&
export GIT_INDEX_FILE &&
- git diff --name-only -z HEAD -- >"$TMP-stagenames" &&
+ git diff-index --name-only -z HEAD -- >"$TMP-stagenames" &&
git update-index -z --add --remove --stdin <"$TMP-stagenames" &&
git write-tree &&
rm -f "$TMPindex"
Will queue this one instead. Thanks.