diff: reuse diff setup for --no-index case

When "--no-index" is in effect (or implied by the arguments), git-diff
jumps early to a special code path to perform that diff. This means we
miss out on some settings like enabling --ext-diff and --textconv by
default.

Let's jump to the no-index path _after_ we've done more setup on
rev.diffopt. Since some of the options don't affect us (e.g., items
related to the index), let's re-order the setup into two blocks (see the
in-code comments).

Note that we also need to stop re-initializing the diffopt struct in
diff_no_index(). This should not be necessary, as it will already have
been initialized by cmd_diff() (and there are no other callers). That in
turn lets us drop the "repository" argument from diff_no_index (which
never made much sense, since the whole point is that you don't need a
repository).

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/t/t4053-diff-no-index.sh b/t/t4053-diff-no-index.sh
index 6e0dd6f9e5..4331b3118a 100755
--- a/t/t4053-diff-no-index.sh
+++ b/t/t4053-diff-no-index.sh
@@ -137,4 +137,12 @@ test_expect_success 'diff --no-index from repo subdir with absolute paths' '
 	test_cmp expect actual
 '
 
+test_expect_success 'diff --no-index allows external diff' '
+	test_expect_code 1 \
+		env GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF="echo external ;:" \
+		git diff --no-index non/git/a non/git/b >actual &&
+	echo external >expect &&
+	test_cmp expect actual
+'
+
 test_done