From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2007 12:22:18 GMT
Subject: Re: 'git diff' in rebase--interactive
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0710091319400.4174@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <470B410F.1040506@viscovery.net>

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