Re: [PATCH] Re-re-re-fix common tail optimization

From: Wincent Colaiuta <win@wincent.com>
Date: Dec 17, 2007, 12:08 UTC
Message-ID: <57245FA1-361B-4333-B490-A2CC99ED4F9C@wincent.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0712171151490.9446@racer.site>

El 17/12/2007, a las 12:57, Johannes Schindelin escribió:

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> Hmm.  There is some chicken-and-egg problem here (I read the thread,  
> but
> did not really see a problem, as I assumed that _other_ tests would  
> assure
> that "git diff --no-index" works as expected).
>
> But as at least one released version of GNU diff has a pretty  
> serious bug,
> I would rather not rely too much on diff.  (BTW this was the reason I
> wanted --no-index so badly.)
>
> So yeah, the second "diff" cannot be "git diff".  Maybe "cmp", but not
> "git diff".

Well cmp would be fine as well, seeing all we want is a boolean "is this the same or not" answer. (I'm not familiar with the GNU diff bug you speak of, but was it so bad that it couldn't even get *that* answer right?)

Cheers, Wincent