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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Thorsten Glaser <t.glaser@tarent.de>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Server-side preventing some files from being overwritten
Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2016 12:10:20 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqbn20qbmr.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1607142049240.25238@tglase.lan.tarent.de> (Thorsten Glaser's message of "Thu, 14 Jul 2016 20:50:24 +0200 (CEST)")

Thorsten Glaser <t.glaser@tarent.de> writes:

> On Thu, 14 Jul 2016, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
>> Can't this become simpler, e.g.
>> 
>> 	if ! git diff-tree --quiet "$old" "$new" -- "$subdir"
>
> Thought about diff-tree, but additions are permitted,

	diff-tree -r --diff-filter=a "$old" "$new" -- "$subdir" 

or something like that?

> and diffing the actual file content has overhead too.

It is why exactly "diff-tree" is desired here, as you do not have to
diff actual file at all.

  reply	other threads:[~2016-07-14 19:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-07-14 15:31 Server-side preventing some files from being overwritten Thorsten Glaser
2016-07-14 16:57 ` Stefan Beller
2016-07-14 17:51   ` Thorsten Glaser
2016-07-14 18:27     ` Junio C Hamano
2016-07-14 18:44       ` Junio C Hamano
2016-07-14 18:50         ` Stefan Beller
2016-07-15 13:56         ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2016-07-15 15:30           ` Thorsten Glaser
2016-07-14 18:50       ` Thorsten Glaser
2016-07-14 19:10         ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2016-07-21 11:21   ` Jakub Narębski
2016-07-21 12:27     ` Thorsten Glaser

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