From: Linus Torvalds Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2007 03:07:08 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add --show-touched option to show "diff --git" line when contents are unchanged Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <7v4pjc9czm.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> [ Slow at responding to email, sorry ] On Mon, 6 Aug 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > That's essentially the patch I sent out in another thread allows > you to do, and some of these people even Acked them, but there > is one minor issue. "git diff" output is paged, and that "not > up to date" warning, if it is given to stderr, would not be > usually seen. I agree. I wouldn't send it to stderr, I'd literally make it part of the output. Everybody who takes patches will accept crud afterwards, since the normal thing is to email them around, so there's no real downside to adding some status output at the end. It shouldn't screw anything up, but people will hopefully notice (sure, if you exit the pager without looking at it all you wouldn't notice, but that's _already_ true, so..) Linus