From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 18:24:50 GMT
Subject: Re: Something wrong with pickaxe?
Message-ID: <7vfynkdqj1.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <43CF5816.1010004@op5.se>

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"?