Re: [PATCH] diff: add a 'path' meta header for non-renames and non-copies

[Bert Wesarg <bert.wesarg@googlemail.com>]

On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 09:30, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> Sorry, but none of these configuration variables are acceptable as-is.
>
> Many scripts (the ones shipped with core-git, in contrib, or written by
> users) depend on their invocation of "git diff-*" family without any funny
> command line arguments like --no-prefix nor --src-prefix to produce a
> patch that can be applied without giving a custom -p value to "git apply".
>
> Letting the user break that promise is already bad, and not giving the
> scripts any way to protect themselves from these configuration variables
> by overriding from the command line makes these doubly bad ideas.

As far as I understand git_diff_ui_config() applies only for "git
diff" not for any of the plumping "git diff-*" tools. Also I thought
that these extended headers are exactly there to support arbitrary
meta information. Therefore I think your arguments don't hold for my
'path' extended header, do they?

Thanks,
Bert

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