Re: [gentoo-user] OT: git, how to compare a repo with a loose tree

2017-12-07 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 12/07/2017 09:58 PM, Ian Zimmerman wrote: > I would like to use "git diff" to show differences between the > current state of a git repository and a normal directory tree somewhere > on the filesystem, ie. one without a .git subdirectory. This is proving > surprisingly hard to do. If "git

[gentoo-user] OT: git, how to compare a repo with a loose tree

2017-12-07 Thread Ian Zimmerman
I would like to use "git diff" to show differences between the current state of a git repository and a normal directory tree somewhere on the filesystem, ie. one without a .git subdirectory. This is proving surprisingly hard to do. git diff has a documented mode to compare general "paths" as