From: Linus Torvalds Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 08:31:52 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] Diff overhaul, adding the other half... Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <7vll65vy10.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> On Tue, 24 May 2005, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > OK, so the short version is, diff-cache like optimization may be > interesting to try out, but practically it would not be much > useful anyway, so I should do it if I am really bored and have > nothing else interesting to do ;-). Yup. I think it's more important to get the rest calmed down again, and fix the things that got broken. Sadly, "git-whatchanged -s" was one such thing. (I think that's just because the "silent" test used to depend on the magical behaviour of the "header" thing, and now that the header generation and suppression is sane, "silent" doesn't work any more) Linus