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From: John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] difftool: Make directory diff symlink work tree
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2013 09:11:34 +0000
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On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 08:26:21PM -0400, Matt McClure wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 3:24 PM, John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk> wrote:
> > If so I think you want some new mode of operation for difftool instead
> > of this patch which will also affect unrelated commands.
> 
> Are you suggesting that difftool do the reset work above given a new
> option or by default?

I was suggesting something like the "--symlink-all" option discussed in
the parallel thread, but it looks like we now have a better solution
than that.


John