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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: Benjamin Woodruff via GitGitGadget <gitgitgadget@gmail.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org,  Benjamin Woodruff <github@benjam.info>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] describe and diff: implement --no-optional-locks
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2025 11:53:54 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqo6y87m4d.fsf@gitster.g> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250310160837.GA26308@coredump.intra.peff.net> (Jeff King's message of "Mon, 10 Mar 2025 12:08:37 -0400")

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> But maybe that is lost in the noise of reading the files to actually do
> diffs, etc? I dunno. I expect it is more important for status, which
> probably does not need to read the whole file contents in most cases
> (and which may be run a lot from the user's prompt, etc).

Yeah, and old timers who run "diff --raw" as if it were a quick
analogue for "status" also would notice.

> It seems like a big and possibly risky departure from what we've done
> for so many years. I'm inclined not to rock the boat too much. ;)

Certainly not right now.  But adding a command line option is even
worse as we would have to carry the support for it for practically
forever X-<.



  reply	other threads:[~2025-03-10 18:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-03-06  5:58 [PATCH 0/2] describe and diff: implement --no-optional-locks Benjamin Woodruff via GitGitGadget
2025-03-06  5:58 ` [PATCH 1/2] describe: " Benjamin Woodruff via GitGitGadget
2025-03-06  5:58 ` [PATCH 2/2] diff: " Benjamin Woodruff via GitGitGadget
2025-03-06 16:11 ` [PATCH 0/2] describe and " Junio C Hamano
2025-03-09  3:39   ` Jeff King
2025-03-10 12:25     ` Junio C Hamano
2025-03-10 16:08       ` Jeff King
2025-03-10 18:53         ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2025-03-10 20:50           ` Benjamin Woodruff
2025-03-10 23:04             ` Junio C Hamano
2025-03-11  2:10             ` Jeff King

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