Re: [PATCH 00/12] Diff updates

From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: May 27, 2005, 23:03 UTC
Message-ID: <7v3bs82rwh.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <7vk6lk5lxt.fsf_-_@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

I've said "I am done with diff" twice on this list already. Aside from unevitable bug reports ;-) I think this time I am done. At least the major ones I wanted to do.

Except one thing. What do you think about the current behaviour of "diff-cache -p (uncached") in a work tree which was freshly checked-out, unmodified but you "touch"ed some files to make them stat-dirty?

I think ancient diff-cache did not report those files, but with the new "diff --git" headers it will show the "diff --git" header mentioning those files followed by no content nor mode changes. Admittedly this matches the diff-raw output behaviour more closely, but I find it a bit distracting. Do you care about cleaning this up?

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