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Re: [GIT PATCH] Selective diff-tree

From
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date
Apr 24, 2005, 17:15 UTC
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On Sun, 24 Apr 2005, David Woodhouse wrote:
> 
> On the other hand, my gitfilelog.sh is fairly fundamentally flawed and
> probably needs rewriting in C based on rev-tree.

Yeah, I think I'll make the "tree-diff" functions be available to others, since they are actually _very_ cheap, and it's a bit sad to have to execute a whole new process just to get a tree-diff. Then writing some rev-list thing that just does tree-diff between different versions should be trivial and quite efficient for finding things like "when did this set of files/subdirectory last change".

Which definitely is very useful information.
		Linus
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Message 3 of 22 in “Re: [GIT PATCH] Selective diff-tree”
  1. Linus TorvaldsApr 24, 2005
  2. David WoodhouseApr 24, 2005
  3. Linus TorvaldsApr 24, 2005
  4. Junio C HamanoApr 24, 2005
  5. Linus TorvaldsApr 24, 2005
  6. 0/2 diff-tree/diff-cache helperJunio C Hamano, Apr 25, 2005
  7. 1/2 Split external diff command interface to a separate file.Junio C Hamano, Apr 25, 2005
  8. 2/2 Introduce diff-tree-helper.Junio C Hamano, Apr 25, 2005
  9. Linus TorvaldsApr 26, 2005
  10. Nicolas PitreApr 26, 2005
  11. Junio C HamanoApr 26, 2005
  12. Diff-tree-helper take two.Junio C Hamano, Apr 26, 2005
  13. Add -r flag to show-diff for diff-cache/diff-tree like output.Junio C Hamano, Apr 26, 2005
  14. Linus TorvaldsApr 26, 2005
  15. Junio C HamanoApr 26, 2005
  16. Linus TorvaldsApr 26, 2005
  17. Junio C HamanoApr 27, 2005
  18. Linus TorvaldsApr 27, 2005
  19. diff-cache/tree compatible output for show-diff (take 2).Junio C Hamano, Apr 26, 2005
  20. Linus TorvaldsApr 27, 2005
  21. Linus TorvaldsApr 27, 2005
  22. Linus TorvaldsApr 27, 2005

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