Re: git diff bug?

2013-06-10 Thread Sarma Tangirala
On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 8:44 AM, Célestin Matte celestin.ma...@ensimag.fr wrote: Since nobody answered you (publicly at least), I will try doing it myself: I think the best thing to do if you want a feature to be added is to come with a patch and request for comments on it. Then, people will

Re: git diff bug?

2013-06-07 Thread Sarma Tangirala
On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 6:17 PM, Junio C Hamano gits...@pobox.com wrote: Célestin Matte celestin.ma...@ensimag.fr writes: But for a two-endpoint diff Porcelain (not the plumbing diff-files, diff-index and diff-tree), I do not think it is particularly a bad idea to add such a typo-detection

git diff bug?

2013-06-06 Thread Sarma Tangirala
Hello All, If I did 'git diff HEAD^..HEAD -- file' should git not report some kind of warning if it could not match the file? For example, if 'file' were infact 'dir/file' and 'file' were unique, would it not be a good idea to report that in the present working directory 'file' were not found but