On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 10:12:07AM -0400, Andy Lowry wrote: > What I'm actually after is a tree-to-filesystem comparison, regardless > of index. I've currently got a "diff" thrown in as a "work-around" > before "diff-index", but now I understand it's not a workaround at > all. If there's a better way to achieve what I'm after, I'd appreciate > a tip. Otherwise I'll just change the comments explaining why there's > a "diff" in my script.
If your workaround is just to refresh the index, then you can do "git update-index --refresh", rather than diff. I don't think there is a plumbing command to do a direct filesystem-to-tree comparison without having an index at all. "git diff <treeish>" claims in the documentation to do so, but besides not being plumbing, I think it is really just doing the same thing as diff-index, under the hood. The index is a pretty fundamental part of git's view of the working tree. -Peff -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
