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Re: change of git-diff-tree and symlinks

From
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date
May 25, 2005, 18:08 UTC
Message-ID
<Pine.LNX.4.58.0505251054110.2307@ppc970.osdl.org>
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<20050525111711.GA27492@vrfy.org>
On Wed, 25 May 2005, Kay Sievers wrote:
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>
> I'm catching up with gitweb.cgi to parse the changed output. Works fine
> so far and is really much easier to parse. Here is something that does
> not work anymore. See the difference between:
> 
>    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/hotplug/udev.git;a=commit;h=49cedafaf893bfe348eb7598227f1a11ae24bfd6
>    http://ehlo.org/~kay/gitweb.cgi?p=linux/hotplug/udev.git;a=commit;h=49cedafaf893bfe348eb7598227f1a11ae24bfd6
Yes, the new diff-tree thing doesn't show symlinks.

The problem seems to be that we just don't have a "status" flag for it. I think we should call it "T" for "Type change" or something, but in the meantime let's just have the rule that instead of ignoring unknown state changes, we always print them out as "?" instead.

Ie something like this..

(And I'd suggest you make gitweb flexible enough that it does something sane if it sees an unknown reason code - let's see what Junio thinks about what status code we should use for this).

		Linus
----
diff --git a/diff.c b/diff.c
--- a/diff.c
+++ b/diff.c
@@ -768,7 +768,7 @@ void diff_flush(int diff_output_style, i
 	for (i = 0; i < q->nr; i++) {
 		struct diff_filepair *p = q->queue[i];
 		if (p->status == 0)
-			continue;
+			p->status = '?';
 		switch (diff_output_style) {
 		case DIFF_FORMAT_PATCH:
 			diff_flush_patch(p);
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Message 2 of 20 in “change of git-diff-tree and symlinks”
  1. Kay SieversMay 25, 2005
  2. Linus TorvaldsMay 25, 2005
  3. Kay SieversMay 25, 2005
  4. Junio C HamanoMay 25, 2005
  5. Adjust show-files test for dotfiles.Junio C Hamano, May 25, 2005
  6. Fix type-change handling when assigning the status code to filepairs.Junio C Hamano, May 25, 2005
  7. Kay SieversMay 25, 2005
  8. Junio C HamanoMay 25, 2005
  9. Linus TorvaldsMay 25, 2005
  10. Mode only changes from diff.Junio C Hamano, May 25, 2005
  11. Test case portability fix.Junio C Hamano, May 26, 2005
  12. Linus TorvaldsMay 26, 2005
  13. Junio C HamanoMay 26, 2005
  14. Jochen RoemlingMay 29, 2005
  15. Kay SieversMay 29, 2005
  16. Jochen RoemlingMay 29, 2005
  17. Sebastian KuzminskyMay 29, 2005
  18. Sebastian KuzminskyMay 30, 2005
  19. Junio C HamanoMay 29, 2005
  20. Petr BaudisMay 29, 2005

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