From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 22:35:51 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make -s flag to show-diff a no-op.
Message-ID: <7v64y7etko.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0504271520150.18901@ppc970.osdl.org>

>>>>> "LT" == Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> writes:

LT> I also wonder whether "-p" should turn on recursion by default (for all 
LT> the tools). "-p" without "-r" doesn't really seem to make much sense, does 
LT> it?

When I know which path I am interested in,

    $ diff-tree -p <tree-1> <tree-2> ls-tree.c

would still get the benefit of not descending down into ppc and
mozilla-sha1 subdirectories, if I am not mistaken.

Think of the kernel sources, and I would say leaving the option
of not recursing down is a good thing.