From: Thomas Glanzmann <sithglan@stud.uni-erlangen.de>
Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 20:38:39 GMT
Subject: Re: git-diff-tree for the first commit
Message-ID: <20050519203839.GJ8105@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0505191323060.2322@ppc970.osdl.org>

Hello,
I see. Thanks for the elaboration. I got the idea now. ;-)

> That said, a new flag that says "diff the root against the NUL tree" 
> wouldn't be wrong either, for when that is what you want.

I want it for the following scenario:

My git frontend sets the time stamps of the checked-out files to the
time of the last modification. That way I can do a 'ls -lart' in a sub
directory and have the most recently touched files on bottom.  I also
want to use this for keyword expansion.

I currently do it by calling more or less 'git-rev-tool HEAD' and
'git-diff-tree -r REVISION' and cache the output. However for the inital
import are no 'timestamps' available. Now I can do two things. Implement
a git-diff-tree flag or assume that any files which don't have a delta
are imported by the initial tree.


Ideas?

	Thomas