From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Date: Sat, 07 May 2005 00:45:03 GMT Subject: Re: How do I... Message-ID: <1115426703.23609.27.camel@gaston> In-Reply-To: <1115397368.16187.266.camel@hades.cambridge.redhat.com> On Fri, 2005-05-06 at 17:36 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote: > On Fri, 2005-05-06 at 09:13 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > There has been at least two different scripts for this posted, and one C > > source code version. > > > > I just haven't integrated them, because I'm an idiot, and too much choice > > makes me run around in small circles and clucking. > > > > Guys - whoever wrote one of the scripts, can you please send out your > > current version to the git list and cc me, and explain why yours is > > superior to the other peoples version. Please? > > I already explained why mine sucks and shouldn't be merged. It was a > proof of concept; hoping for the stone soup effect. > > I haven't seen a C version or indeed anything which actually does the > right thing, although I outlined how it would work and _threatened_ to > do one. I had a half-arsed attempt at it on the way home from > linux.conf.au but my brain tends to melt while I'm on airplanes so I > didn't get very far. Note that paulus current dirdiff CVS can diff arbitrary revs of a git tree afaik (or a rev against current edited content). Ben.