From: Tim Henigan <tim.henigan@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2012 16:58:18 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 8/9 v13] difftool: teach difftool to handle directory diffs
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On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 3:34 AM, David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> An alternative would be teaching difftool to gracefully handle the R
> lines in the --raw output.
>
> Simply creating the files as they existed on each side is a reasonable
> start.  It seems better form to handle all possible output from --raw
> anyways.  It's better than pretending it doesn't exist, I think.

I like this idea best.  I will send v14 (lucky 14!) with this change.


> Doing "smart" things with the rename information is hairy so it's
> certainly worth leaving that for another day.

Agreed.