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Re: Fix up "git log --follow" a bit..

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Jun 21, 2007, 19:30 UTC
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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> writes:
> As to "diff_queued_diff", I think it would be better off not as a global 
> at all, but as being just an entry in the "struct diff_options" structure, 
> but that's a separate issue, and there may be some subtle reason for why 
> it's currently a global.

There is no subtle issue that I know of, but I have to double check. It is just that the code is one of the most ancient part of the system by now.

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  1. Linus TorvaldsJun 21, 2007
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