Re: [patch] (but not for gnulib) squash git diff spurious exit code 1

[Ben Pfaff]

Thien-Thi Nguyen <address@hidden> writes:

> below is a script (write to /tmp/z ; chmod +x) that shows little output
> and exit code 0 with the patch and spurious "0 files changed" and exit
> code 1 without.  i am curious how it behaves w/ other versions of git.

As a workaround, you can run git-status before git-diff.  This is
semi-documented in the documentation for git-status:

       If any paths have been touched in the working tree (that
       is, their modification times have changed) but their
       contents and permissions are identical to those in the
       index file, the command updates the index file.  Running
       git-status can thus speed up subsequent operations such as
       git-diff if the working tree contains many paths that have
       been touched but not modified.

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