From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff King Subject: Re: Why a _full_ diff? (was: [PATCH] Char: serial167, cleanup (fwd)) Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 04:38:13 -0500 Message-ID: <20070212093813.GA15779@coredump.intra.peff.net> References: <20070212092028.GB12605@coredump.intra.peff.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Geert Uytterhoeven X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Feb 12 10:38:19 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HGXdb-0004tD-6V for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Mon, 12 Feb 2007 10:38:19 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964829AbXBLJiQ (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Feb 2007 04:38:16 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964831AbXBLJiQ (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Feb 2007 04:38:16 -0500 Received: from 66-23-211-5.clients.speedfactory.net ([66.23.211.5]:1608 "HELO peff.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S964829AbXBLJiQ (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Feb 2007 04:38:16 -0500 Received: (qmail 3359 invoked from network); 12 Feb 2007 04:38:20 -0500 Received: from unknown (HELO coredump.intra.peff.net) (10.0.0.2) by 66-23-211-5.clients.speedfactory.net with SMTP; 12 Feb 2007 04:38:20 -0500 Received: by coredump.intra.peff.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Mon, 12 Feb 2007 04:38:13 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070212092028.GB12605@coredump.intra.peff.net> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 04:20:30AM -0500, Jeff King wrote: > > | diff --git a/drivers/char/serial167.c b/drivers/char/serial167.c > > | dissimilarity index 67% > > | index af50d32..5fd314a 100644 OK, I see now. This is triggered by using 'git show -B', which breaks the diff apart into a big rewriting chunk. Unfortunately, I don't know enough about how -B works to say whether this makes sense or not. -Peff