From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Thu, 09 Apr 2009 10:43:28 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Allow setting default diff options via diff.defaultOptions
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0904091242430.10279@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>
In-Reply-To: <20090409084903.GA18947@coredump.intra.peff.net>

Hi,

On Thu, 9 Apr 2009, Jeff King wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 10:45:40AM +0200, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> 
> > Now, it is easy to put a patch on top of my patch to support something 
> > like --no-defaults.
> 
> No, it's not. We went over this in great detail earlier in the thread. 
> If you want:
> 
>   git diff --no-defaults
> 
> then you basically have to parse twice to avoid the chicken-and-egg
> problem.

So what?  We parse the config a gazillion times, and there we have to 
access the _disk_.

Ciao,
Dscho