Re: [PATCH v4 2/4] diff: add option to skip resolving diff statuses

> On Thu, Feb 27, 2025 at 06:26:02PM -0600, Justin Tobler wrote:
> > By default, `diffcore_std()` resolves the statuses for queued diff file
> > pairs by calling `diff_resolve_rename_copy()`. If status information is
> > already manually set, invoking `diffcore_std()` may change the status
> > value.
> > 
> > Introduce the `skip_resolving_statuses` diff option that prevents
> > `diffcore_std()` from resolving file pair statuses when enabled.
> 
> You mentioned to me that there was another user that basically abused
> `found_follow` to skip over this, which seems to be in "tree-diff.c".
> Would it make sense to convert that user to use the new mechanism, as
> well, so that we don't mix up options and state?