From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: [PATCH] RelNotes: noted the addition of contrib/diffall Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2012 10:15:49 -0800 Message-ID: <7v399h7i96.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> References: <7v8vjadfgg.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <1331300127-21169-1-git-send-email-tim.henigan@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Tim Henigan X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Mar 09 19:15:59 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1S64M9-0001z2-SV for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Fri, 09 Mar 2012 19:15:58 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754572Ab2CISPx (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Mar 2012 13:15:53 -0500 Received: from b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com ([208.72.237.35]:49481 "EHLO smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754553Ab2CISPw (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Mar 2012 13:15:52 -0500 Received: from smtp.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id CBB607DEE; Fri, 9 Mar 2012 13:15:51 -0500 (EST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; s=sasl; bh=J/HJHXrELchi6UnPGZJbNEZwWDg=; b=KxCECm ONu6YzghFVYluGjk1QMiqIyz6wOeholZhbWoor17Nw6A5fS2VugzxC+qrEm6D6Qx leUZ3Xdp4Is9S/9MgLAvwHcqeDzidU3xYTnoe+yEuNGMAEyvqXQCBsYkiHSu6YPf hONnXRSuSx/AUBQq6GdoCMft9irRrYJ65UAtA= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; q=dns; s=sasl; b=DZ0XToPRinQB+jRgM4p6UB4lRw/gkK7q XOWBHHexUkChlmMUiXK/27NQUX8xj28DzHXtlWnqATCrOzEcc+R2Rej8Qe+MA6RL nayGv1CIvhNHvMFjw8Ix8xwOO96UNMgjLG41/+jmv/miO6mLWttjTqPbKnhYBZQn qwuQ25q+jlw= Received: from b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C30A87DED; Fri, 9 Mar 2012 13:15:51 -0500 (EST) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [76.102.170.102]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 54BD17DEC; Fri, 9 Mar 2012 13:15:51 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <1331300127-21169-1-git-send-email-tim.henigan@gmail.com> (Tim Henigan's message of "Fri, 9 Mar 2012 08:35:27 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: E7325918-6A13-11E1-9530-9DB42E706CDE-77302942!b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Tim Henigan writes: > I wasn't sure if you wanted an actual patch or just wanted me to write > up the paragraph. If you squash this in to some other commit, that is > fine with me. I didn't mean to burden you with a proper patch submission and just a paragraph write-up was perfectly fine. > + * "git diffall" can now be installed from contrib/. The script drives > + an external tool to perform a directory diff of two Git revisions. I'm tempted to add a third line, like this: ... an external tool to perform a directory diff of two Git revisions in one go, unlike "difftool" which compares one-file-at-a-time. to make the true value of this new addition stand out. Thanks.