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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: "brian m. carlson" <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>,
	Thomas Guyot-Sionnest <tguyot@gmail.com>,
	Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org, Thomas Guyot-Sionnest <dermoth@aei.ca>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] Allow passing pipes for input pipes to diff --no-index
Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2020 14:02:39 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200918180239.GA186717@coredump.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqbli3m0w6.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com>

On Fri, Sep 18, 2020 at 10:48:41AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
> 
> > Getting back to the overall feature, this is definitely something that
> > has come up before. The last I know of is:
> >
> >   https://lore.kernel.org/git/20181220002610.43832-1-sandals@crustytoothpaste.net/
> >
> > which everybody seemed to like the direction of; I suspect the original
> > author (cc'd) just never got around to it again. Compared to this
> > approach, it uses a command-line option to avoid dereferencing symlinks.
> > That puts an extra burden on the caller to pass the option, but it's way
> > less magical; you could drop all of the "does this look like a symlink
> > to a pipe" heuristics. It would also be much easier to test. ;)
> 
> Yes, I do remember liking the approach very much and wanted to take
> it once the "do not dereference symlinks everywhere---just limit it
> to what was given from the command line" was done.
> 
> To be quite honest, I think "git diff --no-index A B" should
> unconditionally dereference A and/or B if they are symlinks, whether
> they are symlinks to pipes, regular files or directories, and
> otherwise treat symlinks in A and B the same way as "git diff" if A
> and B are directories.  But that is a design guideline that becomes
> needed only after we start resurrecting Brian's effort, not with
> these patches that started this thread.

Yeah, I think I'd be fine with that approach, too. It makes "git diff
--no-index" more like other tools out of the box. And if we took brian's
patch first, then we'd just be flipping its default, and the option it
adds would give an easy escape hatch for somebody who really wants to
diff two maybe-symlinks.

-Peff

  reply	other threads:[~2020-09-18 18:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-09-18 11:32 Allow passing pipes to diff --no-index + bugfix Thomas Guyot-Sionnest
2020-09-18 11:32 ` [PATCH 1/2] diff: Fix modified lines stats with --stat and --numstat Thomas Guyot-Sionnest
2020-09-18 14:46   ` Taylor Blau
2020-09-18 15:10     ` Thomas Guyot-Sionnest
2020-09-18 17:37       ` Jeff King
2020-09-18 18:00         ` Thomas Guyot-Sionnest
2020-09-20  4:53       ` Thomas Guyot
2020-09-18 17:27   ` Jeff King
2020-09-18 17:52     ` Thomas Guyot-Sionnest
2020-09-18 18:06       ` Junio C Hamano
2020-09-23 19:16         ` Johannes Schindelin
2020-09-23 19:23           ` Junio C Hamano
2020-09-23 20:44             ` Johannes Schindelin
2020-09-24  4:49               ` Thomas Guyot
2020-09-24  5:24                 ` [PATCH v3] " Thomas Guyot-Sionnest
2020-09-24  7:41                   ` [PATCH v4] " Thomas Guyot-Sionnest
2020-09-24  6:40                 ` [PATCH 1/2] " Junio C Hamano
2020-09-24  7:13                   ` Thomas Guyot
2020-09-24 17:19                     ` Junio C Hamano
2020-09-24 17:38                       ` Junio C Hamano
2020-09-23 15:05     ` Johannes Schindelin
2020-09-20 13:09   ` [PATCH v2] " Thomas Guyot-Sionnest
2020-09-20 15:39     ` Taylor Blau
2020-09-20 16:38       ` Thomas Guyot
2020-09-20 19:11       ` Junio C Hamano
2020-09-20 20:08         ` Junio C Hamano
2020-09-20 20:36         ` Junio C Hamano
2020-09-20 22:15           ` Junio C Hamano
2020-09-21 19:26         ` Jeff King
2020-09-21 21:51           ` Junio C Hamano
2020-09-21 22:20             ` Jeff King
2020-09-21 22:37               ` Junio C Hamano
2020-09-18 11:32 ` [PATCH 2/2] Allow passing pipes for input pipes to diff --no-index Thomas Guyot-Sionnest
2020-09-18 14:36   ` Taylor Blau
2020-09-18 16:34     ` Thomas Guyot-Sionnest
2020-09-18 17:19       ` Jeff King
2020-09-18 17:21         ` Jeff King
2020-09-18 17:39         ` Thomas Guyot-Sionnest
2020-09-18 17:48         ` Junio C Hamano
2020-09-18 18:02           ` Jeff King [this message]
2020-09-20 12:54             ` Thomas Guyot
2020-09-21 19:31               ` Jeff King
2020-09-21 20:14                 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-09-18 17:58       ` Taylor Blau
2020-09-18 18:05         ` Jeff King
2020-09-18 17:20     ` Jeff King
2020-09-18 18:00       ` Taylor Blau
2020-09-18 21:56   ` brian m. carlson
2020-09-18 17:51 ` Allow passing pipes to diff --no-index + bugfix Junio C Hamano
2020-09-18 18:24   ` Thomas Guyot-Sionnest

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