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

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Karl Hasselström <kha@treskal.com>
Date
Aug 9, 2008, 10:00 UTC
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On 2008-08-08 17:45:23 -0400, Jeff King wrote:
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> 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...).
I agree.
> And I think it might even be easier to code. ;)

Not for someone who's almost entirely unfamiliar with the git API. Finding the right functions to call takes a lot of time ... which is why I decided to chicken out and implement only the subset I actually needed. But it can be added later -- perhaps by me.

-- 
Karl Hasselström, kha@treskal.com
      www.treskal.com/kalle
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Message 12 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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