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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
To: Mason <slash.tmp@free•fr>
Cc: git <git@vger•kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Salvaging borked project history
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2015 15:54:11 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqlhjkjkkc.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <54EFB0AE.6000600@free.fr> (Mason's message of "Fri, 27 Feb 2015 00:47:58 +0100")

Mason <slash.tmp@free•fr> writes:

>> Mason wrote:
>> 
>>> I was planning to write 'git diff -q commit^ commit'
>>> to test for empty commits.
>> 
>> s/-q/--quiet/ and all is well, no?
>
> Doh! I've no idea how I missed these...

Yeah, this is one of the unfortunate corners of Git that I can
apologize but cannot do much more than that about (in other words,
making "git diff -q" as a short-hand for "git diff --quiet" is not
acceptable) due to backward compatibility and consistency concerns.

  reply	other threads:[~2015-02-26 23:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-02-23 17:05 Salvaging borked project history Mason
2015-02-23 19:36 ` Junio C Hamano
2015-02-26 11:54   ` Mason
2015-02-26 18:56     ` Junio C Hamano
2015-02-26 20:25       ` Mason
2015-02-26 21:28         ` Junio C Hamano
2015-02-26 23:47           ` Mason
2015-02-26 23:54             ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2015-03-04 14:49         ` Mason

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