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From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
To: Thomas Gummerer <t.gummerer@gmail.com>
Cc: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: incorrect range-diff output?
Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2019 10:41:49 +0200 (DST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <nycvar.QRO.7.76.6.1904121038540.41@tvgsbejvaqbjf.bet> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190411220532.GG32487@hank.intra.tgummerer.com>

Hi Thomas,

On Thu, 11 Apr 2019, Thomas Gummerer wrote:

> On 04/11, Duy Nguyen wrote:
> > Try
> >
> >     git range-diff from...to
> >
> > with those two branches from https://gitlab.com/pclouds/git.git. The
> > interesting part is this
> >
> >       diff --git a/Documentation/gitcli.txt b/Documentation/gitcli.txt
> >       --- a/Documentation/gitcli.txt
> >     @@ -120,10 +111,11 @@
> >         * linkgit:git-commit[1] to advance the current branch.
> >
> >      -  * linkgit:git-reset[1] and linkgit:git-checkout[1] (with
> >     -+  * linkgit:git-reset[1] and linkgit:git-restore[1] (with
> >     -     pathname parameters) to undo changes.
> >     +-    pathname parameters) to undo changes.
> >     ++  * linkgit:git-restore[1] to undo changes.
> >
> >         * linkgit:git-merge[1] to merge between local branches.
> >     +
> >
> > This particular hunk comes from giteveryday.txt, not gitcli.txt. And
> > the b/Documentation/gitcli.txt line is also missing.
>
> I think the output here is technically correct, even though it is very
> misleading.  range-diff doesn't currently show the filenames of the
> diff that changed, which makes this a bit hard to read.

True. In the spirit of the "funcname" feature of our `git diff` command,
we could add some (abbreviated) form of the corresponding `diff` lines
(maybe just the `a/` filename? Or maybe the `a/` file name, prefixed by
`-` or `+`, and if the `b/` filename is different, `old->new`? With
`/dev/null` substituted by `(new)` or `(deleted)`?).

> [...]
>
> Maybe I can find some time over the weekend to tackle this, if nobody
> else gets to it first.

Good luck ;-)

Ciao,
Dscho

  reply	other threads:[~2019-04-12  8:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-04-11 11:17 incorrect range-diff output? Duy Nguyen
2019-04-11 22:05 ` Thomas Gummerer
2019-04-12  8:41   ` Johannes Schindelin [this message]
2019-04-14 21:12     ` Thomas Gummerer
2019-04-12  9:21   ` Duy Nguyen
2019-04-12 15:02   ` Junio C Hamano
2019-04-14 21:20     ` Thomas Gummerer
2019-04-15  2:01       ` Junio C Hamano
2019-04-15 12:40     ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-04-14 21:09   ` [RFC PATCH 0/4] output improvements for git range-diff Thomas Gummerer
2019-04-14 21:09     ` [RFC PATCH 1/4] range-diff: fix function parameter indentation Thomas Gummerer
2019-04-14 21:09     ` [RFC PATCH 2/4] range-diff: don't remove funcname from inner diff Thomas Gummerer
2019-04-14 23:21       ` Eric Sunshine
2019-04-15 12:54         ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-04-15 18:56           ` Thomas Gummerer
2019-04-17 11:52             ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-04-24 18:15               ` Thomas Gummerer
2019-04-15 12:53       ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-04-15 18:57         ` Thomas Gummerer
2019-04-14 21:09     ` [RFC PATCH 3/4] range-diff: add section header instead of diff header Thomas Gummerer
2019-04-14 23:29       ` Eric Sunshine
2019-04-15  6:28         ` Johannes Sixt
2019-04-15 13:01         ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-04-15 19:09           ` Thomas Gummerer
2019-04-14 21:09     ` [RFC PATCH 4/4] range-diff: add section headers to the outer hunk header Thomas Gummerer
2019-04-15 12:44       ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-04-15 18:48         ` Thomas Gummerer
2019-04-15 12:47     ` [RFC PATCH 0/4] output improvements for git range-diff Johannes Schindelin
2019-04-15 19:25       ` Thomas Gummerer

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