Re: Prepare "git-merge-tree" for future work

From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: 2006-06-30 12:04:20
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> writes:

> I punted on trying to use the proper git diff interfaces (they are very 
> tightly tied into the "diff_filespec" model - Junio, it might be nice if 
> there was some way to use them in a setting where that isn't necessarily 
> as natural).

I am not quite sure what you mean.  You have a sets of
filepairs, each of which is a pair of filespec, each of which
describes the blob.  And diff is about comparing them, possibly
after running rename detection, pickaxe filtering and such.  If
the merge-tree's internal representation for each blob is more
efficient or easier to use we could switch to use it as an
improved implementation of filespec but I do not think that is
what you meant, because I suspect that approach does not break
diff from the "model".  Care to elaborate a bit more please?


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