Re: Complete http-pull; where should it go?

[Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>]

>>>>> "LT" == Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> writes:

LT> Hmm.. I actually implemented it, because it's simple to
LT> implement, but now that I've tried using it, I just find it
LT> to be too much like line noise to do

LT> 	git-diff-tree -p 0-HEAD HEAD

LT> for "parent to current". The notation "-HEAD" also works,
LT> but since that looks like a command line flag, it's usually
LT> not useful, except when combined with other stuff, ie
LT> "0---HEAD" is "three parents up".

That's why I said I do not think this belongs to the Plumbing.

JIT command-line would do just "jit-diff" to get the diff
between the work tree and the commit (or snapshot) it is based
upon, without parameter.  Fully spelled out, it would be
"jit-diff -1:1".  This kind of syntax, although is quite useful
in JIT context (e.g. saying "jit-patch --2" to mean "apply
changes between snnapshot 2 and two parents up of it to my
current work tree"), I tend to agree that it is a bit too weird
for the core Plumbing layer, for which Unixy syntax is more
suitable.