I noticed that git annex diffdriver doesn't make sure that files it tries to diff are actually present. Would it make sense that git annex diffdriver ... runs git annex get to ensure files are present? 🤔 A git diff could then result in a lot of traffic if the user configured the diffdriver. But I'd say that users who took their time to configure would be are aware of this or even expect that to happen - after all they want to see the differences to a past version.

A manual workaround is to handle the getting in a custom supplied diffing program.

Context:

• recently added git annex diffdriver --text

Duplicate of --get option for diffdriver, so closing done. --Joey