From: "Björn Steinbrink" <B.Steinbrink@gmx.de>
To: Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC 1/4] Add diff-diff, which compares the diffs of two commits
Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2007 18:04:36 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071215170436.GA22485@atjola.homenet> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1197737505128-git-send-email-prohaska@zib.de>
On 2007.12.15 17:51:42 +0100, Steffen Prohaska wrote:
> The following patch series adds experimental diff-diff support.
[...]
> At this point, I'm only seeking comments about the general direction.
> The patches should not be applied to git.git.
>
> - Do you think something like this would be helpful?
I think I might use it to e.g. compare stuff when upstream modified the
patch I submitted.
> - Are similar approaches already available?
interdiff from patchutils. Probably interdiff would also be a better
name than diff-diff, just to be consistent with what is already there.
And using interdiff instead of plain diff in your script might also
yield better results (I didn't use interdiff that often yet).
Björn
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-12-15 17:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-12-15 16:51 [RFC 1/4] Add diff-diff, which compares the diffs of two commits Steffen Prohaska
2007-12-15 16:51 ` [RFC 2/4] gitk: Add diff-diff support Steffen Prohaska
2007-12-15 16:51 ` [RFC 3/4] gitk: Refactor getblobdiffline to split off adddiffline Steffen Prohaska
2007-12-15 16:51 ` [RFC 4/4] gitk: Use adddiffline to nicely format diff-diff Steffen Prohaska
2007-12-15 16:55 ` [RFC 1/4] Add diff-diff, which compares the diffs of two commits Johannes Schindelin
2007-12-15 17:04 ` Björn Steinbrink [this message]
2007-12-15 17:33 ` Steffen Prohaska
2007-12-15 19:34 ` Junio C Hamano
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