Diff folders inside the same commit

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
45/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
csharp, git
Domain
devtools

Research direction

Start by examining libgit2sharp's existing API for comparing the working directory with the index and how it represents diff results. Define the entry point for comparing two on-disk folders independently of branches or tags, then verify that it produces the requested diff for folderA/src and folderB/src.

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Description

I'd like to do something like this with libgit2sharp:

git diff --no-index folderA/src folderB/src  > diffBetweenAandB.diff

which gets the diff between folderA and folderB regardless of its branch or tag. Just diff what is on disk.

Currently it is only possible to show changes between the working directory and the index.

v libgit2sharp.0.27.0-preview-0175

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