Re: [PATCH] Make git-diff-tree indicate when it flushes

From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: May 29, 2006, 18:38 UTC
Message-ID: <7vejyc8ymw.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <17530.59395.5611.931858@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com>

Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> writes:

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> There are times when gitk needs to know that the commits it has sent
> to git-diff-tree --stdin did not match, and it needs to know in a
> timely fashion even if none of them match.  At the moment,
> git-diff-tree outputs nothing for non-matching commits, so it is
> impossible for gitk to distinguish between git-diff-tree being slow
> and git-diff-tree saying no.

Wouldn't this help?

	$ git-diff-tree --stdin --always