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Re: [PATCH 0/15] retain blob info for git diff HEAD:foo HEAD:bar

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Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
May 24, 2017, 09:57 UTC
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On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 11:44:46AM +0900, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Patches around [PATCH 06-08/15] made some unexpected (at least to
> me) turns but the series told a coherent story, building on top of
> what has been achieved in the previous steps.

Yeah, those patches are not technically required for the rest of it. The "strbuf" conversion for oc->path is just something I've wanted to fix for a long time. It made sense to me to do it before teaching handle_dotdot() to look at oc->path (because the interface to do so changed a bit).

-Peff
Previous: Junio C Hamano
Message 33 of 33 in “Demonstrate and partially work around a gitattributes problem”
  1. 0/2 Demonstrate and partially work around a gitattributes problemJohannes Schindelin, May 15, 2017
  2. 1/2 gitattributes: demonstrate that Git tries to read a bogus fileJohannes Schindelin, May 15, 2017
  3. 2/2 mingw: Suppress warning that <commit>:.gitattributes does not existJohannes Schindelin, May 15, 2017
  4. Jeff KingMay 16, 2017
  5. Jeff KingMay 16, 2017
  6. Junio C HamanoMay 17, 2017
  7. Jeff KingMay 17, 2017
  8. Johannes SchindelinMay 18, 2017
  9. Jeff KingMay 19, 2017
  10. 0/15 retain blob info for git diff HEAD:foo HEAD:barJeff King, May 19, 2017
  11. 01/15 handle_revision_arg: reset "dotdot" consistentlyJeff King, May 19, 2017
  12. Philip OakleyMay 20, 2017
  13. Jeff KingMay 23, 2017
  14. Philip OakleyMay 23, 2017
  15. 02/15 handle_revision_arg: simplify commit reference lookupsJeff King, May 19, 2017
  16. 03/15 handle_revision_arg: stop using "dotdot" as a generic pointerJeff King, May 19, 2017
  17. Junio C HamanoMay 24, 2017
  18. Jeff KingMay 24, 2017
  19. 04/15 handle_revision_arg: hoist ".." check out of range parsingJeff King, May 19, 2017
  20. 05/15 handle_revision_arg: add handle_dotdot() helperJeff King, May 19, 2017
  21. Junio C HamanoMay 24, 2017
  22. 06/15 sha1_name: consistently refer to object_context as "oc"Jeff King, May 19, 2017
  23. 07/15 get_sha1_with_context: always initialize oc->symlink_pathJeff King, May 19, 2017
  24. 08/15 get_sha1_with_context: dynamically allocate oc->pathJeff King, May 19, 2017
  25. 09/15 t4063: add tests of direct blob diffsJeff King, May 19, 2017
  26. 10/15 handle_revision_arg: record modes for "a..b" endpointsJeff King, May 19, 2017
  27. 11/15 handle_revision_arg: record paths for pending objectsJeff King, May 19, 2017
  28. 12/15 diff: pass whole pending entry in blobinfoJeff King, May 19, 2017
  29. 13/15 diff: use the word "path" instead of "name" for blobsJeff King, May 19, 2017
  30. 14/15 diff: use pending "path" if it is availableJeff King, May 19, 2017
  31. 15/15 diff: use blob path for blob/file diffsJeff King, May 19, 2017
  32. Junio C HamanoMay 24, 2017
  33. Jeff KingMay 24, 2017

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