From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Subject: Re: How do I... Date: Sat, 07 May 2005 10:45:03 +1000 Message-ID: <1115426703.23609.27.camel@gaston> References: <427B3DB3.4000507@tuxrocks.com> <1115397368.16187.266.camel@hades.cambridge.redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Linus Torvalds , Frank Sorenson , git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sat May 07 02:39:50 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([12.107.209.244]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DUDM9-0002xH-G9 for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Sat, 07 May 2005 02:39:45 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261412AbVEGAq3 (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 May 2005 20:46:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261413AbVEGAq3 (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 May 2005 20:46:29 -0400 Received: from gate.crashing.org ([63.228.1.57]:48864 "EHLO gate.crashing.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261412AbVEGAq0 (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 May 2005 20:46:26 -0400 Received: from gaston (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gate.crashing.org (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id j470d2gJ030488; Fri, 6 May 2005 19:39:04 -0500 To: David Woodhouse In-Reply-To: <1115397368.16187.266.camel@hades.cambridge.redhat.com> X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.2 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.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.