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Re: [PATCH 2/3] Teach git diff-tree --stdin to diff trees

From
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Aug 8, 2008, 21:45 UTC
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<20080808214523.GA31424@sigill.intra.peff.net>
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<20080808204829.7744.11661.stgit@yoghurt>
On Fri, Aug 08, 2008 at 10:48:29PM +0200, Karl Hasselström wrote:
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>  --stdin::
>  	When '--stdin' is specified, the command does not take
>  	<tree-ish> arguments from the command line.  Instead, it
> -	reads either one <commit> or a list of <commit>
> -	separated with a single space from its standard input.
> +	reads lines containing either two <tree>, one <commit>, or a
> +	list of <commit> from its standard input.  (Use a single space
> +	as separator.)

Hmm. Just looking at this as a git user, I would have expected it to take one or more hashes, separated by spaces. If only one, then it must be a commit, and it is diffed against its parents. If more than one, then each must be a tree-ish. So you could diff a commit against a tree (or a tag against a commit, or...).

And I think it might even be easier to code. ;)
-Peff
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Message 11 of 14 in “Teach git diff-tree --stdin to diff trees”
  1. 0/3 Teach git diff-tree --stdin to diff treesKarl Hasselström, Aug 8, 2008
  2. 1/3 Refactoring: Split up diff_tree_stdinKarl Hasselström, Aug 8, 2008
  3. 2/3 Teach git diff-tree --stdin to diff treesKarl Hasselström, Aug 8, 2008
  4. Junio C HamanoAug 8, 2008
  5. Karl HasselströmAug 9, 2008
  6. 2/3 Teach git diff-tree --stdin to diff treesKarl Hasselström, Aug 9, 2008
  7. Junio C HamanoAug 9, 2008
  8. Karl HasselströmAug 10, 2008
  9. Junio C HamanoAug 9, 2008
  10. Karl HasselströmAug 9, 2008
  11. Jeff KingAug 8, 2008
  12. Karl HasselströmAug 9, 2008
  13. Jeff KingAug 11, 2008
  14. 3/3 Add test for diff-tree --stdin with two treesKarl Hasselström, Aug 8, 2008

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