Re: strict version of version_stamp.pl

Hi Joshua,

On 05/09/2009 12:22 AM, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
>> Obviously, an unchecked cvs diff would have produced the same garbage.  Any
>> other problems?
> There are a number of conceptual differences. For example as a majority
> svn user, svn diff does not act the way git diff does. In that svn diff
> will only give me the difference within the current working directory.
> It will not go to the beginning of the tree and give me a diff.
git diff .

Although admittedly that takes some time getting used to.

> Perhaps a more difficult problem is that there is no easy way to update
> a single file within a git repo. In cvs or svn, if I blow something up
> on a particular file and I just want to take a fresh look, I just rm;svn
> update.
git checkout HEAD [--] your_file

Andres