Re: How do I...

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>]

On Fri, 2005-05-06 at 17:36 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-05-06 at 09:13 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > There has been at least two different scripts for this posted, and one C 
> > source code version.
> > 
> > I just haven't integrated them, because I'm an idiot, and too much choice 
> > makes me run around in small circles and clucking.
> > 
> > Guys - whoever wrote one of the scripts, can you please send out your 
> > current version to the git list and cc me, and explain why yours is 
> > superior to the other peoples version. Please?
> 
> I already explained why mine sucks and shouldn't be merged. It was a
> proof of concept; hoping for the stone soup effect.
> 
> I haven't seen a C version or indeed anything which actually does the
> right thing, although I outlined how it would work and _threatened_ to
> do one. I had a half-arsed attempt at it on the way home from
> linux.conf.au but my brain tends to melt while I'm on airplanes so I
> didn't get very far.

Note that paulus current dirdiff CVS can diff arbitrary revs of a git
tree afaik (or a rev against current edited content).

Ben.