Re: [PATCH] Resurrect diff-tree-helper -R

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: May 1, 2005, 05:27 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0504302224510.2296@ppc970.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <7vis231y7y.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On Sat, 30 Apr 2005, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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>  Its output would look something like this:
> 
>     patch -p1 <<\EOF
>     --- /dev/null
>     +++ fs/ext9/Makefile
>     @@ ....
>     EOF
>     chmod -x 'fs/ext9/Makefile'
>     git-update-cache --add --remove -- 'fs/ext9/Makefile'
> 
> Maybe I can make the default diff output just like the above?
> As you say, normal patch would not look at those shell script
> part at all anyway.

I actually do end up looking at diffs, and I'd hate it. I'd much rather have as little extra fluff as possible, and putting shell scipt fragments in it definitely counts as distraction.

The fewer lines there are that don't usually tell a human anything, the better. Dense is good.

		Linus