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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Cc: "Mart Sõmermaa" <mrts.pydev@gmail.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: git diff: add option for omitting the contents of deletes
Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2011 14:54:59 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7v7hclulz0.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D6A6291.8050206@drmicha.warpmail.net> (Michael J. Gruber's message of "Sun\, 27 Feb 2011 15\:41\:21 +0100")

Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net> writes:

> Wasn't the pager invented for sifting through output which has to be
> several pages, but not not for that which could be more concise? ;)
>
> In fact, -D would be quite analogous to -M and -C in that respect.

There is a big difference: -M and -C lets your recipient reproduce the
state using the change you are trying to convey with the diff output in
either direction (iow, "apply -R" works), but your "-D" would not have
that property.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-02-27 22:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-02-26 13:16 git diff: add option for omitting the contents of deletes Mart Sõmermaa
2011-02-26 20:11 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-02-27 14:41   ` Michael J Gruber
2011-02-27 22:33     ` Mart Sõmermaa
2011-02-28  9:58       ` Michael J Gruber
2011-02-28 10:51         ` Mart Sõmermaa
2011-02-27 22:54     ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2011-02-27 23:07       ` Junio C Hamano
2011-02-28  7:31         ` Michael J Gruber
2011-02-28 12:17           ` Jeff King
2011-02-28 12:23             ` Jeff King
2011-02-28 12:32               ` Michael J Gruber
2011-02-28 12:59                 ` Jeff King
2011-02-28 13:05                   ` Michael J Gruber
2011-02-28 21:54                     ` Jeff King
2011-02-28 18:11               ` Junio C Hamano
2011-02-28 22:23                 ` Jeff King
2011-02-28 23:28                   ` Junio C Hamano
2011-03-01  0:11                     ` Junio C Hamano
2011-03-07 20:38                       ` Mart Sõmermaa
2011-03-08  7:14                         ` Michael J Gruber
2011-03-08 19:49                         ` Junio C Hamano
2011-03-08 21:25                           ` Mart Sõmermaa
2011-03-08 21:31                             ` Jeff King
2011-02-28 12:42             ` symling diff driver (Was: Re: git diff: add option for omitting the contents of deletes) Michael J Gruber
2011-02-28 13:08               ` Jeff King
2011-02-28 15:26                 ` [PATCH/WIP] attr: make attributes depend on file type Michael J Gruber
2011-02-28 17:30                   ` Jeff King
2011-02-28 17:48                     ` Junio C Hamano
2011-03-01  7:46                       ` Michael J Gruber
2011-02-28 10:45         ` git diff: add option for omitting the contents of deletes Mart Sõmermaa
2011-02-28 16:10           ` Michael J Gruber

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