From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2005 17:16:08 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] add a diff-files command
Message-ID: <7vk6mm9607.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.62.0504281238130.14033@localhost.localdomain>

>>>>> "NP" == Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> writes:

NP> ...  And yesterday I realized that the (currently unimplemented) 
NP> --ignore switch to show-files, combined with the exclusion pattern list, 
NP> whould be more logical than teaching show-diff (which I still think is a 
NP> misnamer in the context of the other diff tools) about files unknown to 
NP> the cache.  The patch to show-files is also much smaller and logical.

I agree wholeheartedly with both counts.  (1) Linus and I
discussed briefly about renaming show-diff to diff-files but it
is on hold, waiting for a big wholesale rename.  (2) the logical
place for the -X and -x is "show-files --ignore".