Re: [RFC] get_sha1() shorthands for blob/tree objects

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: Apr 19, 2006, 03:58 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0604182056390.3701@g5.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <46a038f90604182051n4a16ee9atd2577d658befc335@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, 19 Apr 2006, Martin Langhoff wrote:

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> <wishlist>
>   What about support for diffing a subtree?
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>       git diff v2.2:net/appletalk v2.9:net/appletalk-ng
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> </whishlist>

Did you try it? It works as-is with that patch. Exactly because it will call git-diff-tree with the two SHA1's, and since they are now trees (and not blobs) git-diff-tree will do the right thing.

And no, I didn't actually test it. But it really _should_ work with that trivial diff, including with the "a..b" format.

		Linus