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I would like to use "git diff" to show differences between the |
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current state of a git repository and a normal directory tree somewhere |
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on the filesystem, ie. one without a .git subdirectory. This is proving |
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surprisingly hard to do. |
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git diff has a documented mode to compare general "paths" as they call |
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it: the --no-index option. But when I try it like this inside a git repo, |
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git diff --no-index . /somedir |
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git apparently "forgets" that the current directory is a repo, and just |
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basically apes diff -r. This means it doesn't know which files are |
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tracked, and in particular it reports every freaking file under ./.git |
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as deleted. And there is no exclude option that I see. Argh! How can |
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I get around this? |
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If it matters: I'm fine with assuming the repo is clean ie. no |
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uncommitted changes, so the current state can be represented as any of: |
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working tree, "index" or HEAD. |
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if you also post the followup to the list or newsgroup. |
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