Re: Command-line interface thoughts
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- Michael Nahas <mike.nahas@gmail.com>
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- Jun 13, 2011, 02:14 UTC
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On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 5:29 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
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> Michael Nahas <mike.nahas@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> It is clear that implementing NEXT/WTREE will worsen the performance
>> of some commands ("git diff" under merge conflict).
>
> It is not clear to me at all. I generally do not to base my first
> objection on performance. When I have problems with proposals at the
> design and concept level, I do not have a chance to even bother about
> performance aspect, before questioning the proposal.My apologies. "Performance" was an ambiguous word.
I meant that "git diff" under a merge conflict would be less informative if forced it to be equivalent to some notation with NEXT/WTREE. Even if we allowed diff3 and defined BASE, OURS, THEIRS.