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Re: [PATCH v2] Do not show "diff --git" metainfo with --no-prefix

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Jan 17, 2008, 01:19 UTC
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Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
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> Having had time to think about it for a while, I think that the 
> --no-prefix still can make sense with --git.  For example, if I want to 
> submit a gitk patch, but only have git.git (and consequently, made the fix 
> in that repository), I could use "git diff --no-prefix" to make it easier 
> for Paul, no?

No, what you are talking about is a need of negative prefix, which you did not implement in that no/src/dst-prefix patch.

Using --no-prefix is a _hack_ that may happen to work only when the subtree-merged project is one level down. You would need negative prefix of two level _and_ a/ and b/ prefix, when gitk is moved to modules/gitk subdirectory.

Incidentally I am planning to do such a move of gitk and git-gui to one level down (modules/gitk and modules/git-gui) sometime in the future when I convert git.git to use submodules. Privately I already have such a tree based on -rc3 but for obvious reasons I cannot push it out even to a preview branch in git.git repository for the time being.

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  5. Chris OrtmanJan 15, 2008
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  14. Daniel BarkalowJan 15, 2008
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  16. Do not show "diff --git" metainfo with --no-prefixJunio C Hamano, Jan 16, 2008
  17. Johannes SchindelinJan 16, 2008
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  19. Johannes SchindelinJan 16, 2008
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  21. Junio C HamanoJan 16, 2008
  22. Do not show "diff --git" metainfo with --no-prefixJunio C Hamano, Jan 16, 2008
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  27. Junio C HamanoJan 16, 2008
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  29. Junio C HamanoJan 17, 2008
  30. Johannes SchindelinJan 17, 2008
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  35. Johannes SchindelinJan 17, 2008
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  45. Jan HudecJan 19, 2008
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  47. Chris OrtmanJan 16, 2008
  48. Jean-Luc HerrenJan 15, 2008
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  50. Daniel BarkalowJan 16, 2008
  51. Nigel MagnayMar 11, 2008
  52. Jan HudecMar 11, 2008
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