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Re: 'git diff' in rebase--interactive

From
Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date
Oct 9, 2007, 12:22 UTC
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<Pine.LNX.4.64.0710091319400.4174@racer.site>
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Hi,
On Tue, 9 Oct 2007, Johannes Sixt wrote:
> I wonder for what reason rebase--interactive generates a patch using 
> 'git diff' in the make_patch function. Is this an artefact?

It was an explicit request by people who use git-rebase regularly, and missed being able to see the patch in --interactive.

> I'd like to get rid of this use of 'git diff' because it invokes 
> external diff drivers, which is totally unwanted if the driver is 
> interactive - like the 'windiff' thing that I posted a week ago.
So you do not want to be able to run git-rebase (without -i)?

Ciao, Dscho

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