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From: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] diff/diff-files: do not use --cc too aggressively
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2008 11:30:26 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <48D21FB2.50700@viscovery.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7v7i99zuqh.fsf_-_@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano schrieb:
> Textual diff output for unmerged paths was too eager to give condensed
> combined diff.  This has two problems:
> 
>  (1) "diff --base/--ours/--theirs" (and "diff-files -p" with the same) is
>      a request to compare with the named stage.  We showed "-c -p" output
>      instead;

I cannot reproduce what you describe here. "diff --base/--ours/--theirs"
works as expected with and without this patch.

>  (2) "diff -c" (and "diff-files -c -p") is a request to view combined diff
>      without condensing (otherwise the user would have explicitly asked
>      for --cc, not -c).  We showed "--cc" output anyway.

The patch fixes this:

Tested-by: Johannes Sixt <johannes.sixt@telecom.at>

-- Hannes

      reply	other threads:[~2008-09-18  9:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-09-17  8:00 combined diff, but not condensed, howto? Johannes Sixt
2008-09-17 16:58 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-09-18  5:57   ` Johannes Sixt
2008-09-18  6:14     ` Junio C Hamano
2008-09-18  6:24       ` Johannes Sixt
2008-09-18  7:01         ` Junio C Hamano
2008-09-18  7:30           ` Johannes Sixt
2008-09-18  9:08             ` [PATCH] diff/diff-files: do not use --cc too aggressively Junio C Hamano
2008-09-18  9:30               ` Johannes Sixt [this message]

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