Re: [PATCH 0/2] diff-tree/diff-cache helper

From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Date: 2005-04-26 12:08:07
On Mon, 25 Apr 2005, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> This also makes me think that we should just make "show-diff" show the
> same format, at which point show-diff actually matches all the other
> tools, and it is likely to make show-diff more useful to boot.
> 
> The thing I personally use "show-diff" for these days is actually just to
> check whether I have anything dirty in my tree, and then it would actually
> be preferable to just get the filenaname printout (in the same old
> "diff-cache" format) rather than the full diff.

That makes a lot of sense.  And I think that path filtering in diff-tree 
should be factored out and supported into all of the diff-* commands as 
well (not necessarily in diff-tree-helper).


Nicolas
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