From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2007 21:29:03 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] diff: squelch empty diffs even more
Message-ID: <7v643hbyao.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <46C21A25.2040304@lsrfire.ath.cx>

René Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx> writes:

> When we compare two non-tracked files or explicitly specify
> --no-index then the suggestion to run git-status is not helpful.

That observation is correct but how does skip_stat_unmatch count
up in such a case?  Shouldn't diffcore_skip_stat_unmatch()
function be taught about such a "fake" filepair that did not
come from git, and ignore the stat differences?