Re: [PATCH] Do not show empty diff in diff-cache uncached.

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: May 30, 2005, 05:34 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0505292231580.10545@ppc970.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <7v3bs5k8d1.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On Sun, 29 May 2005, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> 
> Please disregard the patches you have already discarded so far;
> this request-to-discard includes -O and -B enhancements.

I actually like -B, it's just that that patch depended on -O and also came with a separate patch that was the reason I liked -B in the first place..

IO, if we have

	/* start out with files "a" and "b" */
	mv b c
	mv a b
	git-update-cache --add --remove a b c
	git-diff-cache -B HEAD

then I htink you're 100% right that it should show up as two renames in a diffs, and "-B" would catch it. I think that's a great thing.

		Linus

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