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Re: [PATCH] diff overhaul

From
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date
May 20, 2005, 05:30 UTC
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<Pine.LNX.4.58.0505192229540.2206@ppc970.osdl.org>
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On Thu, 19 May 2005, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> 
> This also allowed diff-cache and diff-files to acquire -R
> (reverse) option to generate diff in reverse.  Users of
> diff-tree can swap two trees easily so I did not add -R there.
Actually, diff-tree would want it too.

You can only swap the trees easily if you give two trees, not if you give a commit.

		Linus
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