From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org, Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>,
Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation/git-diff: remove -r from --name-status example
Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2007 19:06:38 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.0.999.0707281905050.3442@woody.linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070729002427.GA1566@coredump.intra.peff.net>
On Sat, 28 Jul 2007, Jeff King wrote:
>
> The '-r' now seems to be superfluous.
For diffing against (or using) the index, the "-r" is superfluous.
Why? Because the index is always the *full* list of files. It's "flat".
However, when you diff two trees, the -r makes a difference.
So I think you'd find a difference if you actually diffed two commits
with "git diff tree2..tree2".
Linus
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-07-29 2:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-07-29 0:24 [PATCH] Documentation/git-diff: remove -r from --name-status example Jeff King
2007-07-29 2:06 ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2007-07-29 4:11 ` Jeff King
2007-07-29 4:27 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-07-29 4:48 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-07-29 4:56 ` Jeff King
2007-07-29 8:23 ` David Kastrup
2007-07-29 9:36 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-07-29 9:49 ` Jeff King
2007-07-29 11:14 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-07-29 11:33 ` David Kastrup
2007-07-29 11:38 ` Jeff King
2007-07-29 12:04 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-07-29 12:19 ` Jeff King
2007-07-29 12:24 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-07-29 12:26 ` Jeff King
2007-07-29 16:51 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-07-29 4:52 ` Jeff King
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