Re: git full diff output issues..

From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: May 26, 2005, 19:36 UTC
Message-ID: <7vwtplbwze.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0505261223240.2307@ppc970.osdl.org>

>>>>> "LT" == Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> writes:

LT> On Thu, 26 May 2005, Linus Torvalds wrote:

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>> So we'd change it from
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>> deleted file mode 100644
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>> to
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>> deleted file mode 100644 arch/um/kernel/checksum.c
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>> in this case..

LT> I just realized that this same thing is equally true of just plain mode LT> changes, where wif we don't have any content we just get

LT> diff --git a/name b/name LT> old mode xxxx LT> new mode yyyy

LT> so I might as well parse the diff header here (I don't want to repeat the LT> name twice for mode changes). Oh well.

So what do you want? created and deleted would acquire path and mode thing doesn't? I think adding path only to "new mode" line would be a sensible compromise, since we are interested in what the resulting tree would look like most of the time.