Re: Odd "git diff" breakage

2014-03-31 Thread Junio C Hamano
Junio C Hamano writes: > Linus Torvalds writes: > >> I hit this oddity when not remembering the right syntax for --color-words.. >> >> Try this (outside of a git repository): >> >>touch a b >>git diff -u --color=words a b >> >> and watch it scroll (infinitely) printing out >> >>error

Re: Odd "git diff" breakage

2014-03-31 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 11:30 AM, Junio C Hamano 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

Re: Odd "git diff" breakage

2014-03-31 Thread Junio C Hamano
Linus Torvalds writes: > I hit this oddity when not remembering the right syntax for --color-words.. > > Try this (outside of a git repository): > >touch a b >git diff -u --color=words a b > > and watch it scroll (infinitely) printing out > >error: option `color' expects "always", "au