From: Matt McClure <matthewlmcclure@gmail.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk>,
David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>,
"git@vger.kernel.org" <git@vger.kernel.org>,
Tim Henigan <tim.henigan@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: difftool -d symlinks, under what conditions
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2013 16:48:16 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3222724986386016520@unknownmsgid> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vehfk5kn2.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
On Mar 12, 2013, at 4:16 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> Matt McClure <matthewlmcclure@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> An alternative approach would be to reuse git-diff's option parsing
>
> I do not think you want to go there. That wouldn't solve the third
> case in my previous message, no?
I think I don't fully understand your third bullet.
> * If you are comparing two trees, and especially if your RHS is not
> HEAD, you will send everything to a temporary without
> symlinks. Any edit made by the user will be lost.
I think you're suggesting to use a symlink any time the content of any
given RHS revision is the same as the working tree.
I imagine that might confuse me as a user. It would create
circumstances where some files are symlinked and others aren't for
reasons that won't be straightforward.
I imagine solving that case, I might instead implement a copy back to
the working tree with conflict detection/resolution. Some earlier
iterations of the directory diff feature used copy back without
conflict detection and created situations where I clobbered my own
changes by finishing a directory diff after making edits concurrently.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-03-12 22:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-11-26 20:23 difftool -d symlinks, under what conditions Matt McClure
2012-11-27 6:20 ` David Aguilar
2012-11-27 21:10 ` Matt McClure
[not found] ` <CAJELnLEL8y0G3MBGkW+YDKtVxX4n4axJG7p0oPsXsV4_FRyGDg@mail.gmail.com>
2013-03-12 18:12 ` Matt McClure
2013-03-12 19:09 ` John Keeping
2013-03-12 19:23 ` David Aguilar
2013-03-12 19:43 ` John Keeping
2013-03-12 20:39 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-03-12 21:06 ` John Keeping
2013-03-12 21:26 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-03-12 21:43 ` Matt McClure
2013-03-12 22:11 ` Matt McClure
2013-03-12 22:16 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-03-12 22:48 ` Matt McClure [this message]
2013-03-13 0:17 ` John Keeping
2013-03-13 0:56 ` Matt McClure
2013-03-13 8:24 ` David Aguilar
2013-03-13 15:30 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-03-13 16:45 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-03-13 17:08 ` John Keeping
2013-03-13 17:40 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-03-13 18:01 ` John Keeping
2013-03-13 19:28 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-03-13 20:33 ` [PATCH 0/2] difftool --dir-diff: symlink all files matching the working tree John Keeping
2013-03-13 20:33 ` [PATCH 1/2] git-difftool(1): fix formatting of --symlink description John Keeping
2013-03-13 20:33 ` [PATCH 2/2] difftool --dir-diff: symlink all files matching the working tree John Keeping
2013-03-14 3:41 ` David Aguilar
2013-03-14 9:36 ` John Keeping
2013-03-14 15:18 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-03-14 20:19 ` [PATCH v2 0/3] " John Keeping
2013-03-14 20:19 ` [PATCH v2 1/3] git-difftool(1): fix formatting of --symlink description John Keeping
2013-03-14 20:19 ` [PATCH v2 2/3] difftool: avoid double slashes in symlink targets John Keeping
2013-03-14 21:19 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-03-14 20:19 ` [PATCH v2 3/3] difftool --dir-diff: symlink all files matching the working tree John Keeping
2013-03-14 21:28 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-03-14 22:24 ` John Keeping
2013-03-14 22:31 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-03-14 9:43 ` difftool -d symlinks, under what conditions John Keeping
2013-03-14 17:25 ` John Keeping
2013-03-14 17:33 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-03-14 20:00 ` [PATCH 0/2] checkout-index: fix .gitattributes handling with --prefix John Keeping
2013-03-14 20:00 ` [PATCH 1/2] t2003: modernize style John Keeping
2013-03-14 20:00 ` [PATCH 2/2] entry: fix filter lookup John Keeping
2013-03-14 21:50 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-03-12 20:38 ` difftool -d symlinks, under what conditions Junio C Hamano
2013-03-12 19:24 ` [PATCH] difftool: Make directory diff symlink work tree John Keeping
2013-03-12 23:12 ` Matt McClure
2013-03-12 23:40 ` John Keeping
2013-03-13 0:26 ` Matt McClure
2013-03-13 9:11 ` John Keeping
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