Re: git diff bug?

2013-06-10 Thread Sarma Tangirala
On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 8:44 AM, Célestin Matte 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 > discuss it and decide

Re: git diff bug?

2013-06-07 Thread Sarma Tangirala
On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 6:17 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Célestin Matte 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" feature. I was wondering if this feat

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