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Re: Something wrong with pickaxe?

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Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date
Jan 19, 2006, 18:24 UTC
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Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se> writes:
>> True again.  It is hard to be "more friendly" without actually
>> generating a diff ;-).
>
> I thought generating diffs was fairly cheap...

Probably. But we currently do not do diff generation internally, so the comparison is "now doing diff with N lines of code" vs "having 0 lines of code to do diff".

> ... I give it a function name to search for and want to
> know when the calling semantics changed for that function.
"Calling semantics" meaning "function signature"?
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  2. Linus TorvaldsJan 18, 2006
  3. Junio C HamanoJan 19, 2006
  4. Andreas EricssonJan 19, 2006
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  6. Andreas EricssonJan 19, 2006
  7. Junio C HamanoJan 19, 2006
  8. Linus TorvaldsJan 19, 2006
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