Re: [PATCH] Add --show-touched option to show "diff --git" line when contents are unchanged

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Aug 3, 2007, 06:30 UTC
Message-ID: <7v3az1qgdg.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <20070803053717.GA16379@midwinter.com>

Steven Grimm <koreth@midwinter.com> writes:

> 	Okay, enough arguing about whether the empty diff lines are
> 	useful or not -- here's a patch to get rid of them.

I do not think this addresses anything but -p (i.e. textual diff) output. If we _were_ to really do this, I think the patch I sent earlier today, with possible improvements I suggested, would be a better direction to go.

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