From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 21:12:19 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5] diff --quiet
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0703152211050.22628@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <81b0412b0703151408v5e6245f4l95fb7cc801e1b568@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

On Thu, 15 Mar 2007, Alex Riesen wrote:

> On 3/15/07, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> > > > (That, however, works only if you do not want something like "git diff
> > > > -w"...)
> > >
> > > Why? Can't "git diff -w" quit early?
> > 
> > No, but "-w" means "ignore white space", which means that blobs can be

> > deemed equal, even if they differ at the byte-per-byte level.
> 
> So it can leave early as soon as it found a difference on byte level
> and the difference is not white space, can't it?

Yes.

The point I tried to make: without "-w" or "-b", you can compare at the 
tree level. No need for a --quiet option. (Of course, you showed me that 
you'd need it for index-tree comparisons anyway.)

Ciao,
Dscho