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Teach git-diff-files the new option `--no-index`
authorJohannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Thu, 22 Feb 2007 20:50:10 +0000 (21:50 +0100)
committerJunio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Fri, 23 Feb 2007 04:59:55 +0000 (20:59 -0800)
commitd516c2d11945cf13ed3d961fa63817c60b7a566b
tree7d9aa00054be3a60e6ababc94aa0ccaa573b768f
parentf5a92647694f18fb3544060a1a964ac082d072b2
Teach git-diff-files the new option `--no-index`

With this flag and given two paths, git-diff-files behaves as a GNU diff
lookalike (plus the git goodies like --check, colour, etc.).  This flag
is also available in git-diff.  It also works outside of a git repository.

In addition, if git-diff{,-files} is called without revision or stage
parameter, and with exactly two paths at least one of which is not tracked,
the default is --no-index.

So, you can now say

git diff /etc/inittab /etc/fstab

and it actually works!

This also unifies the duplicated argument parsing between cmd_diff_files()
and builtin_diff_files().

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Documentation/git-diff-files.txt
Documentation/git-diff.txt
builtin-diff-files.c
builtin-diff.c
diff-lib.c
diff.c
diff.h
git.c