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symling diff driver (Was: Re: git diff: add option for omitting the contents of deletes)

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Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Date
Feb 28, 2011, 12:42 UTC
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Jeff King venit, vidit, dixit 28.02.2011 13:17:
> On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 08:31:55AM +0100, Michael J Gruber wrote:
> 
[non symlink stuff snipped]
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>> Reminds me of my failed attempt to make the diff output for symlinks
>> more human-friendly. The latter can be solved with textconv, though.
> 
> I am still carrying around my "symlinks as a special class of diff"
> patches if you are interested:
> 
>   https://github.com/peff/git/tree/jk/userdiff-symlinks
This is marvelous (except for s/perl -pe/sed -e/, of course).

Is there anything left to do to get this in pu? (The reference to "previous patch" may need to be more explicit.)

Michael
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  1. Mart SõmermaaFeb 26, 2011
  2. Junio C HamanoFeb 26, 2011
  3. Michael J GruberFeb 27, 2011
  4. Mart SõmermaaFeb 27, 2011
  5. Michael J GruberFeb 28, 2011
  6. Mart SõmermaaFeb 28, 2011
  7. Junio C HamanoFeb 27, 2011
  8. Junio C HamanoFeb 27, 2011
  9. Michael J GruberFeb 28, 2011
  10. Jeff KingFeb 28, 2011
  11. Jeff KingFeb 28, 2011
  12. Michael J GruberFeb 28, 2011
  13. Jeff KingFeb 28, 2011
  14. Michael J GruberFeb 28, 2011
  15. Jeff KingFeb 28, 2011
  16. Junio C HamanoFeb 28, 2011
  17. Jeff KingFeb 28, 2011
  18. Junio C HamanoFeb 28, 2011
  19. Junio C HamanoMar 1, 2011
  20. Mart SõmermaaMar 7, 2011
  21. Michael J GruberMar 8, 2011
  22. Junio C HamanoMar 8, 2011
  23. Mart SõmermaaMar 8, 2011
  24. Jeff KingMar 8, 2011
  25. symling diff driver (Was: Re: git diff: add option for omitting the contents of deletes)Michael J Gruber, Feb 28, 2011
  26. Jeff KingFeb 28, 2011
  27. attr: make attributes depend on file typeMichael J Gruber, Feb 28, 2011
  28. Jeff KingFeb 28, 2011
  29. Junio C HamanoFeb 28, 2011
  30. Michael J GruberMar 1, 2011
  31. Mart SõmermaaFeb 28, 2011
  32. Michael J GruberFeb 28, 2011

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