Re: [PATCH v2] difftool: only copy back files modified during directory diff

From: David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>
Date: Jul 21, 2012, 05:10 UTC
Message-ID: <CAJDDKr7103_S+=THQVLHHXFpiSPjLpDVm8j7Kb-nUh4G=bZa-Q@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 10:34 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:

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> David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com> writes:
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>> Perhaps something like this...
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> Yeah, like that ;-).

Hmm.. this one was potentially data-losing. Sorry for not catching that in 7e0abcec103b3649943b236881cf88e8fd6cf3a4.

$ git tag --contains 7e0abcec103b3649943b236881cf88e8fd6cf3a4 v1.7.11 v1.7.11.1 v1.7.11.2

maint, please?

I don't like complexity either, but adding a --symlinks option (and making it the default) to create symlinks instead of copies really does seem like the way to go long-term. Then we can avoid the whole copy-back business when in this mode.

I'll start exploring this unless you beat me to it, Tim ;-)

-- 
David