Re: What's in git.git, and announcing GIT 1.4.2-rc4

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Aug 10, 2006, 08:05 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0608100957050.13885@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <7vy7txxts5.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Hi,

On Wed, 9 Aug 2006, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> * The 'next' branch, in addition, has these.
>
>   = To graduate immediately after 1.4.2 happens:
>
> [...]
>
>   - pack-objects can copy a non-delta representation of a object
>     with the new style header straight into packs.
>
> [...]
>
>   * Hopefully not too long after 1.4.2:
> 
> [...]
> 
>   - New style loose objects, which use the same header format as
>     in-pack objects, can be copied straight into packs when not
>     deltified.  I am hoping that we can make the new-style loose
>     objects the default in 10 to 12 weeks to give everybody time
>     to update to 1.4 series.

These are the same, no?

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> * The 'pu' branch, in addition, has these.
>
> [...]
> 
>   - Johannes has a new diff option --color-words to use color to
>     squash word differences into single line output.
> 
>     I do not feel much need for this stuff, and the change is
>     rather intrusive, so I am tempted to drop it.

I beg to differ on the "intrusive": except for needed structs and functions, which are totally orthogonal with the rest of git, it only touches fn_out_consume(), builtin_diff() and in an obvious way, diff_opt_parse() and struct diff_options.

So the real impact is pretty low and well contained.

Besides, I really use it often -- you should try it! Call me blind, but very often I cannot spot the differences (in the unified diff) when they are minor, especially when there was just a typo in the documentation. You could now say that I should not care about it, then, but if _I_ made the mistake, I want to learn from it.

Of course, if you really hate what it does, I will happily carry it in my personal repository; I _need_ it.

Ciao, Dscho