From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 10:53:50 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Skip timestamp differences for diff --no-index
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0902181153050.6274@intel-tinevez-2-302>
In-Reply-To: <1234939686-14932-1-git-send-email-mspang@uwaterloo.ca>

Hi,

On Wed, 18 Feb 2009, Michael Spang wrote:

> We display empty diffs for files whose timestamps have changed.
> Usually, refreshing the index makes those empty diffs go away.
> However, when not using the index they are not very useful and
> there is no option to suppress them.
> 
> This forces on the skip_stat_unmatch option for diff --no-index,
> suppressing any empty diffs. This option is also used for diffs
> against the index when "diff.autorefreshindex" is set, but that
> option does not apply to diff --no-index.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Michael Spang <mspang@uwaterloo.ca>
> ---

Nice!  And very nicely written patch!

Thanks,
Dscho