From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 16:02:28 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH gitweb] Visually indicating patch size with horizontal bars
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0510280901410.4664@g5.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <7vr7a6z4bc.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>



On Thu, 27 Oct 2005, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
> Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> writes:
> 
> > Well, if you do full copy detection (and break detection), then 
> > git-diff-tree will actually have effectively calculated the size of the 
> > diff of each file. It just doesn't print them (well, it does a percentage 
> > for the renames/copies).
> 
> Unbroken in-place edit would never go through diffcore-rename,
> so that is a gross overstatement.

Well, the break detection will have _calculated_ the diff size.

The point being that all the work has been done - it's just not printed 
out.

		Linus