From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Wed, 24 May 2017 09:57:15 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/15] retain blob info for git diff HEAD:foo HEAD:bar
Message-ID: <20170524095715.wgkft6fofjop5jco@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqefvfht29.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>

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