Re: [PATCH] Documentation/git-diff: remove -r from --name-status example

> On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 01:04:13PM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> 
> > The idea is this: when "--quiet" was given, we do not output anything, and 
> > therefore do not have to recurse into the directories, because we already 
> > know that there are differences when a _tree_ is different.  I do not 
> > remember all details of the "--quiet" implementation, but I think that it
> > 
> > - exits early (as you said)
> > 
> > - does not turn on "recursive" to avoid unnecessary work.
> 
> OK, looking through the code, this works _sometimes_. If I say "git-diff
> --quiet" then it will not recurse. If I say "git-diff -p --quiet" then
> it will (even though we never show the -p output).

> Since --quiet supersedes all output formats, I think it probably should 
> just clear the recursive option entirely. In which case rather than 
> special-casing quiet to avoid recursion in git-diff, we can simply turn 
> on recursion before parsing options (and it will get turned off 
> correctly by any diff options that need to do so).