Ramsay Jones [off-list ref] writes:
See commit 456a265746 ("diff: --no-index should ignore the worktree",
2025-08-07) in the 'jc/diff-no-index-in-subdir' branch.
In order to get it to build, I just did:
...
Thanks for noticing and reporting. I'd save the translators by
reusing the message used already elsewhere.
builtin/diff.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git c/builtin/diff.c w/builtin/diff.c
index 3eb4cbb057..0b23c41456 100644
--- c/builtin/diff.c
+++ w/builtin/diff.c
@@ -497,7 +497,8 @@ int cmd_diff(int argc,
* prefix.
*/
if (no_index && prefix) {
- chdir(prefix);
+ if (chdir(prefix))
+ die(_("cannot come back to cwd"));
prefix = NULL;
}