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From: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering•net>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
Cc: git list <git@vger•kernel.org>
Subject: Re: git-diff: must --exit-code work with --ignore* options?
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2009 22:27:02 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fxb9ujxl.fsf@meyering.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vljl1dpud.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> (Junio C. Hamano's message of "Sun, 30 Aug 2009 13:11:22 -0700")

Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Jim Meyering <jim@meyering•net> writes:
>> Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> ...
>>> Subject: [PATCH] diff --quiet: special case "ignore whitespace" options
>>> ...
>>> Change the semantics of --ignore-whitespace* options to mean more than
>>> "omit showing the difference in text".  When these options are used, the
>>> internal "quick" optimization is turned off, and the status reported with
>>> the --exit-code option will now match if any the textual diff output is
>>> actually produced.
>>>
>>> Also rename the internal option "QUIET" to "QUICK" to better reflect what
>>> its true purpose is.
>>
>> Thanks again.
>> If there's anything I can to do help (add a test?), let me know.
>
> The change has been cooking in 'next' and hopefully be in 1.7.0.  I think
> the updated series adds its own test script, too.
>
> Using it in every day scenario, and reporting any breakage you notice
> before 1.7.0 happens, would be greatly appreciated.

Oh!  I am using next (will test!), and even searched log summary output,
but obviously my search was too cursory or just inaccurate.

I glanced through it and it looks fine (of course!).
I spotted one typo, and suggest a second change that's barely worth
mentioning, both in comments:

diff --git a/diff.c b/diff.c
index 91d6ea2..24bd3fc 100644
--- a/diff.c
+++ b/diff.c
@@ -2382,7 +2382,7 @@ int diff_setup_done(struct diff_options *options)
 	 * Most of the time we can say "there are changes"
 	 * only by checking if there are changed paths, but
 	 * --ignore-whitespace* options force us to look
-	 * inside contets.
+	 * inside contents.
 	 */

 	if (DIFF_XDL_TST(options, IGNORE_WHITESPACE) ||
@@ -3346,7 +3346,7 @@ free_queue:
 		fclose(options->file);

 	/*
-	 * Report the contents level differences with HAS_CHANGES;
+	 * Report the content-level differences with HAS_CHANGES;
 	 * diff_addremove/diff_change does not set the bit when
 	 * DIFF_FROM_CONTENTS is in effect (e.g. with -w).
 	 */

  reply	other threads:[~2009-08-30 20:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-05-22 14:01 git-diff: must --exit-code work with --ignore* options? Jim Meyering
2009-05-22 16:14 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-05-22 17:54   ` Jim Meyering
2009-05-22 20:40     ` Junio C Hamano
2009-05-23  7:26       ` Jim Meyering
2009-08-30 16:25       ` Jim Meyering
2009-08-30 20:11         ` Junio C Hamano
2009-08-30 20:27           ` Jim Meyering [this message]
2009-09-08 20:58           ` Thell Fowler

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