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From: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
To: Wincent Colaiuta <win@wincent.com>
Cc: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>,
	Jeff King <peff@peff.net>, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Re-re-re-fix common tail optimization
Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2007 13:20:55 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <476669A7.1050407@viscovery.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <57245FA1-361B-4333-B490-A2CC99ED4F9C@wincent.com>

Wincent Colaiuta schrieb:
> El 17/12/2007, a las 12:57, Johannes Schindelin escribió:
> 
>> Hmm.  There is some chicken-and-egg problem here (I read the thread, but
>> did not really see a problem, as I assumed that _other_ tests would
>> assure
>> that "git diff --no-index" works as expected).
>>
>> But as at least one released version of GNU diff has a pretty serious
>> bug,
>> I would rather not rely too much on diff.  (BTW this was the reason I
>> wanted --no-index so badly.)
>>
>> So yeah, the second "diff" cannot be "git diff".  Maybe "cmp", but not
>> "git diff".
> 
> Well cmp would be fine as well, seeing all we want is a boolean "is this
> the same or not" answer. (I'm not familiar with the GNU diff bug you
> speak of, but was it so bad that it couldn't even get *that* answer right?)

Heh, there's at least one distribution out there (Suse 10.1) that comes with
a *cmp* that doesn't get that answer right if its output is connected to
/dev/null, which is the case when you simply 'make test'.

-- Hannes

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-12-17 12:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-12-15 11:16 trim_common_tail bug? Jeff King
2007-12-15 15:51 ` Jeff King
2007-12-15 17:49   ` Junio C Hamano
2007-12-15 20:02     ` Jeff King
2007-12-16  7:06       ` Jeff King
2007-12-16 19:43         ` Junio C Hamano
2007-12-16 21:16           ` Junio C Hamano
2007-12-16 21:21             ` Jeff King
2007-12-16 21:49               ` [PATCH] Re-re-re-fix common tail optimization Junio C Hamano
2007-12-16 22:15                 ` Jeff King
2007-12-16 22:23                   ` Junio C Hamano
2007-12-16 22:28                     ` Junio C Hamano
2007-12-16 22:29                     ` Jeff King
2007-12-17  8:42                       ` Wincent Colaiuta
2007-12-17 10:39                         ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-12-17 10:59                           ` Wincent Colaiuta
2007-12-17 11:57                             ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-12-17 12:08                               ` Wincent Colaiuta
2007-12-17 12:12                                 ` Jeff King
2007-12-17 12:20                                 ` Johannes Sixt [this message]
2007-12-17 12:51                                   ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-12-17 17:58                                     ` Junio C Hamano
2007-12-17 18:05                                       ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-12-19 14:18                 ` Charles Bailey
2007-12-19 14:27                   ` Jeff King
2007-12-19 14:37                     ` Charles Bailey
2007-12-20  0:21                       ` Junio C Hamano
2007-12-20  1:38                         ` Wincent Colaiuta
2007-12-20  9:23                         ` Charles Bailey
2007-12-20  9:40                           ` Junio C Hamano

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