Re: [PATCH/RFC] Do not show "diff --git" metainfo with --no-prefix

> Hi,
> 
> On Tue, 15 Jan 2008, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> 
> > Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
> > 
> > >> diff --git a/diff.c b/diff.c
> > >> index b18c140..8126a74 100644
> > >> --- a/diff.c
> > >> +++ b/diff.c
> > >> @@ -1246,30 +1258,46 @@ static void builtin_diff(const char *name_a,
> > >>  	char *a_one, *b_two;
> > >>  	const char *set = diff_get_color_opt(o, DIFF_METAINFO);
> > >>  	const char *reset = diff_get_color_opt(o, DIFF_RESET);
> > >> +	int is_git_diff = with_standard_prefix(o);
> > >>  
> > >>  	a_one = quote_two(o->a_prefix, name_a + (*name_a == '/'));
> > >>  	b_two = quote_two(o->b_prefix, name_b + (*name_b == '/'));
> > >>  	lbl[0] = DIFF_FILE_VALID(one) ? a_one : "/dev/null";
> > >>  	lbl[1] = DIFF_FILE_VALID(two) ? b_two : "/dev/null";
> > >> -	printf("%sdiff --git %s %s%s\n", set, a_one, b_two, reset);
> > >> +
> > >> +	if (!is_git_diff)
> > >> +		printf("%sIndex: %s%s\n", set, b_two, reset);
> > >> +	else
> > >> +		printf("%sdiff --git %s %s%s\n", set, a_one, b_two, reset);
> > >> +
> > >
> > > Hmm.  AFAICT plain diff outputs "diff ...", not "Index: ...".  IMHO doing 
> > > half of what SVN does, and half what GNU diff does, but not completely 
> > > what something else does, does not help anybody.
> > >
> > > So I'm mildly negative on this hunk.
> > 
> > You misread the intention of the patch.
> > 
> > This whole point of this RFC patch is about not labelling a non-git 
> > patch that results from --no-prefix with "diff --git". As I said in my 
> > reply to Daniel, I do not like "Index:" myself, and doing printf("diff 
> > %s %s\n", a_one, b_two) instead would be perfectly fine by me.
> 
> Well, I commented on this hunk specifically, and think that the intention 
> of the patch would be better served by just conditionally omitting 
> "--git", and nothing else.