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Re: [PATCH 0/2] diff-tree/diff-cache helper

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Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Date
Apr 26, 2005, 02:08 UTC
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On Mon, 25 Apr 2005, Linus Torvalds wrote:
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> This also makes me think that we should just make "show-diff" show the
> same format, at which point show-diff actually matches all the other
> tools, and it is likely to make show-diff more useful to boot.
> 
> The thing I personally use "show-diff" for these days is actually just to
> check whether I have anything dirty in my tree, and then it would actually
> be preferable to just get the filenaname printout (in the same old
> "diff-cache" format) rather than the full diff.

That makes a lot of sense. And I think that path filtering in diff-tree should be factored out and supported into all of the diff-* commands as well (not necessarily in diff-tree-helper).

Nicolas
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Message 10 of 22 in “Re: [GIT PATCH] Selective diff-tree”
  1. Linus TorvaldsApr 24, 2005
  2. David WoodhouseApr 24, 2005
  3. Linus TorvaldsApr 24, 2005
  4. Junio C HamanoApr 24, 2005
  5. Linus TorvaldsApr 24, 2005
  6. 0/2 diff-tree/diff-cache helperJunio C Hamano, Apr 25, 2005
  7. 1/2 Split external diff command interface to a separate file.Junio C Hamano, Apr 25, 2005
  8. 2/2 Introduce diff-tree-helper.Junio C Hamano, Apr 25, 2005
  9. Linus TorvaldsApr 26, 2005
  10. Nicolas PitreApr 26, 2005
  11. Junio C HamanoApr 26, 2005
  12. Diff-tree-helper take two.Junio C Hamano, Apr 26, 2005
  13. Add -r flag to show-diff for diff-cache/diff-tree like output.Junio C Hamano, Apr 26, 2005
  14. Linus TorvaldsApr 26, 2005
  15. Junio C HamanoApr 26, 2005
  16. Linus TorvaldsApr 26, 2005
  17. Junio C HamanoApr 27, 2005
  18. Linus TorvaldsApr 27, 2005
  19. diff-cache/tree compatible output for show-diff (take 2).Junio C Hamano, Apr 26, 2005
  20. Linus TorvaldsApr 27, 2005
  21. Linus TorvaldsApr 27, 2005
  22. Linus TorvaldsApr 27, 2005

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