Re: git patch

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

Johannes Schindelin escreveu:
> The thing is: it is so darned convenient. In 99% of calling "git diff" you 
> do not have a modified staging area. It is still fresh, and all your 
> changes are in the working directory only.
> 
> Then you can say
> 
> $ git diff
> 
> to see what you have changed. (Since Git 1.4.3 it automatically sends the 
> output to a pager if the target is a tty, so you do not need the "-p" 
> flag).
> 
> But you also can compare it to _any_ revision. That includes a tag:
> 
> $ git diff lilypond_2_9_7
> 
> and you see all the changes with respect to that revision, fast. It may 
> seem fishy at first sight, but at second, it is really convenient, so I 
> don't complain any more...

I'm not saying git-diff should be inconvenient, but rather that it
gives a newbie more confidence if

  git commit --dry

shows the diff of the change that he just introduced

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