I'm running msysgit 1.8.3 on a larger project under Windows 8.1.
When I issue git difftool --dir-diff, any changes I perform to source files on the left pane will persist back to the working dir. This is good and is the desired behavior.
But when I compare to a treeish, for example:
git difftool --dir-diff --cached
git difftool --dir-diff stash@{0}
git difftool --dir-diff HEAD^
The changes are not saved.
The weird thing is that when I test on a smaller project, I don't have this problem. It seems like there's an issue when creating symlinks when comparing the large project. Is there some flag I could use to force creating symlinks? Alternatively, is there a way to debug why git is not creating the symlinks?
Thanks.
(*) To those who are familiar with it, I'm looking for the behavior of git-meld, which used to do this just perfect.
Edit: I found this inconsistency in another different project on a different PC. So now I have two cases like that. Any help would be appreciated.
