From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2005 02:39:00 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] add a diff-files command (revised)
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.62.0504272229290.14033@localhost.localdomain>
In-Reply-To: <20050428021547.GB8612@pasky.ji.cz>

On Thu, 28 Apr 2005, Petr Baudis wrote:

> Dear diary, on Thu, Apr 28, 2005 at 04:06:29AM CEST, I got a letter
> where Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> told me that...
> > In the same spirit as diff-tree and diff-cache, here is a diff-files 
> > command that processes differences between the index cache and the 
> > working directory content.  It produces lists of files that are either 
> > changed, deleted and/or unknown with regards to the current cache, 
> > content. The -p option can also be used to generate a patch describing 
> > the differences in patch form.
> 
> Except some usage enhancement, how does this differ from show-diff?

This is intended to supercede show-diff.  But since its argument list is 
different I thought creating a new command would be nicer while 
show-diff usage (which has accumulated cruft already with now unused 
switches) is phased out.  Also the name "diff-files" is more inline with 
the other diff commands.

> Also, for some reason you have update-cache.c in your patch too.

Huh!?


Nicolas