On 3/1/24 3:51 AM, Bruno Haible wrote: > Interesting. One can use 'git diff --no-index' even outside a git repository. > Is there any significant advantage of 'git diff --no-index' over > 'diff -u --color'?
I mostly type it out of habit to be honest. Not sure why I started using it. My git diff settings are untouched (I think) so it uses a pager. I think these two commands would give me the same output: $ git diff --no-index .profile .bashrc $ diff -u --color=always .profile .bashrc | less -r I'm really bad at remembering options so there might be an easier way to do that second command. > Btw, I prefer to receive patches as attachments ('git format-patch' rather > than 'git send-email'): Less risk of damage by an MUA or MTA. Easier to > save to disk. Easier to understand what gets committed into git vs. what are > merely comments. Saves me from viewing 140 lines of mail headers. Good to know. I'll keep that in mind. How long does gnulib-tool --create-testdir and --create-megatestdir usually take with all modules, if you can remember? I just did --create-testdir with all modules and it took a while. Makes me wonder how much --create-megatestdir would take. Collin