From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2005 05:09:02 GMT
Subject: Re: [GIT PATCH] Selective diff-tree
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0504232202340.19877@ppc970.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <1113400651.20848.135.camel@hades.cambridge.redhat.com>



On Wed, 13 Apr 2005, David Woodhouse wrote:
>
> The patch below makes diff-tree take extra arguments, specifying the
> files or directories which should be considered 'interesting'. Changes
> in uninteresting directories are not reported; we don't even bother to
> recurse down into those trees.

David, I took your patch, updated it for some changes in diff-tree, and
then totally rewrote (and simplified) your testing for "interesting".
There was no reason to consider "/" special, as it falls out of the other
cases quite naturally.

It passes all the tests I threw at it, but they weren't exhaustive (but I 
do think I tested the border cases). Mind double-checking that it works 
for your cases too?

		Linus