From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: Sun, 29 May 2005 18:56:10 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add -O<orderfile> option to diff-* brothers.
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0505291154030.10545@ppc970.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <7vzmufwu8w.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>



On Sat, 28 May 2005, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
> A new diffcore filter diffcore-order is introduced.  This takes
> a text file each of whose line is a shell glob pattern.  Patches
> matching the glob pattern on an earlier line in the file are
> output before patches matching the glob pattern on a later line,
> and patches not matching any glob pattern is output last.

This smells to me like a "cool feature, because we can" rather than a
"this is useful because of xxx".

You could equally well do it with 

	git-diff-cache .. | sort-filenames | git-diff-helper

in porcelain, if somebody really wants this (but I can't see people 
clamoring for it, since nobody else has ever done soemthing like this, 
afaik).

In other words: what is the problem this is trying to solve?

		Linus