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From: "Alex Riesen" <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
To: "Johannes Schindelin" <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Cc: "Junio C Hamano" <junkio@cox.net>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5] diff --quiet
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 22:08:18 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <81b0412b0703151408v5e6245f4l95fb7cc801e1b568@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0703151841180.22628@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>

On 3/15/07, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> > > (That, however, works only if you do not want something like "git diff
> > > -w"...)
> >
> > Why? Can't "git diff -w" quit early?
>
> No, but "-w" means "ignore white space", which means that blobs can be
> deemed equal, even if they differ at the byte-per-byte level.
>

So it can leave early as soon as it found a difference on byte level
and the difference is not white space, can't it?

  reply	other threads:[~2007-03-15 21:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-03-14 18:24 [PATCH 1/2] diff --quick Junio C Hamano
2007-03-14 21:26 ` [PATCH 1/5] Remove unused diffcore_std_no_resolve Junio C Hamano
2007-03-14 21:26 ` [PATCH 2/5] diff --quiet Junio C Hamano
2007-03-14 22:33   ` Alex Riesen
2007-03-14 22:54     ` Alex Riesen
2007-03-14 23:37       ` Junio C Hamano
2007-03-15  8:22         ` Alex Riesen
2007-03-14 23:14   ` Alex Riesen
2007-03-14 23:53     ` Junio C Hamano
2007-03-15  0:33       ` Linus Torvalds
2007-03-15  1:23         ` Junio C Hamano
2007-03-15  6:47           ` Junio C Hamano
2007-03-15 16:08             ` Linus Torvalds
2007-03-15  8:19       ` Alex Riesen
2007-03-15 10:37         ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-03-15 13:55           ` Alex Riesen
2007-03-15 17:43             ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-03-15 21:08               ` Alex Riesen [this message]
2007-03-15 21:12                 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-03-16  0:16                   ` Junio C Hamano
2007-03-14 21:26 ` [PATCH 3/5] Teach --quiet to diff backends Junio C Hamano
2007-03-14 21:26 ` [PATCH 4/5] revision.c: explain what tree_difference does Junio C Hamano
2007-03-14 21:26 ` [PATCH 5/5] try-to-simplify-commit: use diff-tree --quiet machinery Junio C Hamano

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