Re: [PATCH] Add --show-touched option to show "diff --git" line when contents are unchanged

From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Date: Aug 6, 2007, 16:16 UTC
Message-ID: <864pjcbpud.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz>
In-Reply-To: <86bqdkbq59.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz>

David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> writes:

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> I don't even think it prudent to _offer_ the --show-touched option
> in a porcelain such as git-diff as long as purportedly read-only
> porcelain commands like git-status can trash the state: what is
> reported is not actually "touched" but something internal to the
> operation of git.
>
> At least not without a notice in the manual that this option might
> or might not work, depending on what one did previously.

Proposal: if this option is to stay, call it rather --show-stale since
that corresponds better with what the option actually does: show
whether git's inode cache went stale.  It does _not_ show whether the
file has been touched (git-status does not touch files, for example).

-- 
David Kastrup