From: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2011 12:42:06 GMT
Subject: symling diff driver (Was: Re: git diff: add option for omitting the contents of deletes)
Message-ID: <4D6B981E.5090206@drmicha.warpmail.net>
In-Reply-To: <20110228121726.GA5197@sigill.intra.peff.net>

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]
>> 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