Re: [PATCH] Add --show-touched option to show "diff --git" line when contents are unchanged

From: Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@imag.fr>
Date: Aug 6, 2007, 20:05 UTC
Message-ID: <vpqr6mgwhsf.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>
In-Reply-To: <86bqdkbq59.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz>

David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> writes:

> Ack, ack, ack.  The current default behavior is plainly unusable.  For
> example, I've rsynced -a a tree including .git, and suddenly git-diff
> goes out of kilter.  And stops doing so when running git-status
> once.

Unfortunately, the patch solves the "large and irrelevant output" of git-diff, but not the performance problem (see the rest of the thread, I failed to convince Junio that updating the index was a performance improvement while keeping the same user semantics).

-- 
Matthieu

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