Re: [PATCH 2/5] diff --quiet

From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date: Mar 15, 2007, 21:08 UTC
Message-ID: <81b0412b0703151408v5e6245f4l95fb7cc801e1b568@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0703151841180.22628@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>

On 3/15/07, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:

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> > > (That, however, works only if you do not want something like "git diff
> > > -w"...)
> >
> > Why? Can't "git diff -w" quit early?
>
> No, but "-w" means "ignore white space", which means that blobs can be
> deemed equal, even if they differ at the byte-per-byte level.
>

So it can leave early as soon as it found a difference on byte level and the difference is not white space, can't it?