From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 18:38:37 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC] diff-cache buglet
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0504261137350.18901@ppc970.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <7vsm1do0t4.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>



On Tue, 26 Apr 2005, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> 
> Well, I somehow thought these things are in fixed column format;
> mode, ->, sha, stage, and filename are all seperated with either
> ' ' or '\t'.  So if I copy MN to "1 MN", presumably you would
> see this:
> 
>     100644 a716d58de4a570e0038f5c307bd8db34daea021f 0 MN
>     100644 a716d58de4a570e0038f5c307bd8db34daea021f 0 1 MN
> 
> So while I agree that // would also work, I fail to see why you
> would even need that.

Because I'd rather _not_ have the 0 in there at all for the normal case.

Yes, it's there for "show-files --stages", but it's certainly _not_ there 
in "diff-tree" output right now.

		Linus