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
next prev 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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