diff-files: treat "i-t-a" files as "not-in-index"

The `diff-files' command and related commands which call the function
`cmd_diff_files()', consider the "intent-to-add" files as a part of the
index when comparing the work-tree against it. This was previously
addressed in commits [1] and [2] by turning the option
`--ita-invisible-in-index' (introduced in [3]) on by default.

For `diff-files' (and `add -p' as a consequence) to show the i-t-a
files as as new, `ita_invisible_in_index' will be enabled by default
here as well.

[1] 0231ae71d3 (diff: turn --ita-invisible-in-index on by default,
                2018-05-26)
[2] 425a28e0a4 (diff-lib: allow ita entries treated as "not yet exist
                in index", 2016-10-24)
[3] b42b451919 (diff: add --ita-[in]visible-in-index, 2016-10-24)

Signed-off-by: Srinidhi Kaushik <shrinidhi.kaushik@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/builtin/diff-files.c b/builtin/diff-files.c
index 86ae474fbf..1e352dd8f7 100644
--- a/builtin/diff-files.c
+++ b/builtin/diff-files.c
@@ -28,6 +28,13 @@ int cmd_diff_files(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 	git_config(git_diff_basic_config, NULL); /* no "diff" UI options */
 	repo_init_revisions(the_repository, &rev, prefix);
 	rev.abbrev = 0;
+
+	/*
+	 * Consider "intent-to-add" files as new by default, unless
+	 * explicitly specified in the command line or anywhere else.
+	 */
+	rev.diffopt.ita_invisible_in_index = 1;
+
 	precompose_argv(argc, argv);
 
 	argc = setup_revisions(argc, argv, &rev, NULL);