From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 13:55:01 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5] diff --quiet
Message-ID: <81b0412b0703150655y3d2a71d3t8db6e334ecf23ca1@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0703151136470.22628@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>

On 3/15/07, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> > >         $ git-rev-parse v2.6.16^{tree} v2.6.20^{tree}
> > >
> >
> > Why would I want to benchmark --quiet with rev-parse?
>
> It is not benchmarking, but it is a faster solution: you can see if two
> trees are different by comparing their SHA-1s.

Can the same be done for index? (index-tree comparison)

> (That, however, works only if you do not want something like "git diff
> -w"...)

Why? Can't "git diff -w" quit early?