From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Tue, 08 Nov 2005 17:13:55 GMT
Subject: Re: Check for differents trees
Message-ID: <7vhdanhxkc.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <20051106190249.39384.qmail@web26314.mail.ukl.yahoo.com>

Marco Costalba <mcostalba@yahoo.it> writes:

>    as you said, the speed is almost the same but your way is clearly better.

How often do you do this --diff-filter=AD and why?

If it is a common enough operation, we could add a specific hack
to stop feeding the diff machinery with unwanted kind of changes
when diff-filter is set and none of -B/-C/-M are used.  That
_might_ speed things up for you.