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From: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] diff: make "too many files" rename warning optional
Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 21:15:48 +1000
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Junio C Hamano writes:

> > In that case, Junio, perhaps we should restrict this particular warning
> > just to merge.
> 
> I am not sure if we really want to work around Tcl's braindamage like
> that.

If this is the warning about too many files to do inexact rename
detection, I find that one annoying because I don't care about that
(it's just for the diffstat when doing a pull AFAIK) and I don't know
how to turn it off.

> There is no stdwarn or stdinfo stream and I think it is a bug on the
> receiving end to assume that anything that comes to stderr is an error.

There are apparently some programs on some platforms for which this
behaviour is necessary...

Paul.