Does not work upon comparing files that are not versioned (non git folders)

[daformat]

So, git diff works pretty much without any trouble when you pass it local files that are from in non git versioned folders. Trying to get the same result with pretty-diff is a total fail.

Here is the git diff commands I'm using on a non git folder (working and giving the same result, which is expected)

git diff --word-diff file1.html file2.html
git diff --color-words --word-diff file1.html file2.html
git diff --no-index --color-words --word-diff file1.html file2.html
git diff --no-index --color-words --word-diff -- file1.html file2.html

All of these commands perfectly produces a colored word-diff, and works on non git initialized folders:

I get absolutely no result when trying the same thing with pretty-diff. Is there any configuration option I'm missing somewhere? I thought pretty-diff just "carried out" the args to git diff and expected to work out-of-the-box from what the README states "Simply use pretty-diff the same way you use git diff". Here is a screenshot:

I also tried inserting "diff" between pretty-diff and the rest of the args but it returns "error: not a git repository".

[scottgonzalez]

I didn't know that git diff worked outside of git repositories, but I guess that makes sense. The problem was that git diff exits with a code of 1 when you do that, even though it renders the diff. Since the exit code indicates an error, pretty-diff just prints out stderr from git diff, but in this case stderr is empty.

I've updated pretty-diff to handle this odd case and release v0.6.1.

[daformat]

Yeah, I just got the notification and saw the 'hack' you had to pull of your hat :) Thanks for fixing this so quickly!