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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: "Stephen R. van den Berg" <srb@cuci.nl>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: cvs diff -l equivalent?
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 14:25:22 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.1.10.0807301424271.3277@nehalem.linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080730082030.GA12555@cuci.nl>



On Wed, 30 Jul 2008, Stephen R. van den Berg wrote:

> Someone popped this question on me.  The closest I got was:
> 
>    git diff .
> 
> But that still recurses.  Any solutions without patching?

Not without patching, no. When generating a patch, git diff always 
recurses.

I suspect adding some kind of "-l" flag would be about five lines of code, 
though, so if you really need it... Hint, hint.

		Linus

      parent reply	other threads:[~2008-07-30 21:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-07-30  8:20 cvs diff -l equivalent? Stephen R. van den Berg
2008-07-30 13:53 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-07-30 15:58   ` Stephen R. van den Berg
2008-07-30 18:18     ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-07-30 14:00 ` Thomas Rast
2008-07-30 16:17   ` Stephen R. van den Berg
2008-07-30 20:57 ` Mikael Magnusson
2008-07-30 21:25 ` Linus Torvalds [this message]

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