Odd git diff breakage

I hit this oddity when not remembering the right syntax for --color-words.. Try this (outside of a git repository): touch a b git diff -u --color=words a b and watch it scroll (infinitely) printing out error: option `color' expects always, auto, or never forever. I haven't tried to

Re: Odd git diff breakage

Linus Torvalds torva...@linux-foundation.org writes: I hit this oddity when not remembering the right syntax for --color-words.. Try this (outside of a git repository): touch a b git diff -u --color=words a b and watch it scroll (infinitely) printing out error: option `color'

Re: Odd git diff breakage

On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 11:30 AM, Junio C Hamano gits...@pobox.com wrote: Hmph, interesting. outside a repository is the key, it seems. Well, you can do it inside a repository too, but then you need to use the --no-index flag to get the diff two files behavior. It will result in the same

Re: Odd git diff breakage

Junio C Hamano gits...@pobox.com writes: Linus Torvalds torva...@linux-foundation.org writes: I hit this oddity when not remembering the right syntax for --color-words.. Try this (outside of a git repository): touch a b git diff -u --color=words a b and watch it scroll