Bug 225965 – git-webkit should have a command to diff against HEAD / main

• Component: Tools / Tests
• Status: NEW

[Ryosuke Niwa]

There should be a command like `git-webkit diff` which diffs against main to match `svn diff`.

[Alexey Proskuryakov]

Can you clarify what you’d like it to do? Just git diff HEAD?

[Jonathan Bedard]

I don't know exactly what Ryosuke had in mind for this bug, but in my opinion, this basically translates to "show me the set of changes I have locally that do not appear on the remote". This is important for style checking and for generating a pretty-diff, which is a function that is currently tied to bugzilla's patch review.

[Kocsen Chung]

This seems akin to a `git diff (--cached) (HEAD|main)`. Unless we want `git-webkit` to do anything different like the pretty-patch aforementioned, then I don't think we should have `git-webkit` do this. 
My intent is to avoid `git-webkit` to repeat every single git command if it doesn't have additional logic or benefit to the user.

[Radar WebKit Bug Importer]

<rdar://problem/78502801>

[Ryosuke Niwa]

(In reply to Kocsen Chung from comment #3)
> This seems akin to a `git diff (--cached) (HEAD|main)`. Unless we want
> `git-webkit` to do anything different like the pretty-patch aforementioned,
> then I don't think we should have `git-webkit` do this. 
> My intent is to avoid `git-webkit` to repeat every single git command if it
> doesn't have additional logic or benefit to the user.

The additional benefit is that you don't have to remember to type cryptic options like --cached / --index or HEAD/main.

After 10 years of using Git, I can never bother to remember all these random names and commands because they don't make slightest of logical sense.