Re: [PATCH] Documentation/git-diff: remove -r from --name-status example

[Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Jul 28, 2007 at 09:48:15PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> However, I think Jeff's patch always makes it recursive even
> when the user asks for --raw, which makes it inappropriate for
> inclusion whether before or after 1.5.3.

Right, that's the point. git-diff is currently inconsistent (unless you
understand that index comparisons are always recursed, and tree
comparisons need it explicitly -- but part of the point of git-diff is
to abstract those sorts of details), so this attempts to harmonize the
behavior no matter what you're diffing (whether it be --name-status or
--raw).

If you really want not to recurse, then you have to know you are
comparing trees anyway, at which point it makes sense to use the
git-diff-tree plumbing.

-Peff
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html