Re: git full diff output issues..

[Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cam.ac.uk>]

On Thu, 26 May 2005, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Thu, 26 May 2005, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > 
> > So we'd change it from
> > 
> > 	deleted file mode 100644
> > 
> > to
> > 
> > 	deleted file mode 100644 arch/um/kernel/checksum.c
> > 
> > in this case..
> 
> I just realized that this same thing is equally true of just plain mode 
> changes, where wif we don't have any content we just get
> 
> 	diff --git a/name b/name
> 	old mode xxxx
> 	new mode yyyy
> 
> so I might as well parse the diff header here (I don't want to repeat the 
> name twice for mode changes). Oh well.

Given that git already has the metadata lines in the diff ("old mode", 
"deleted file mode", etc) why not simply add another metadata line "name" 
and what follows that is the name until an end of line character (or a NUL 
if you want file names with embedded new lines).  You can then only emit 
the "name" metadata line when no actual diff is present and hence the name 
is uncertain.

Best regards,

	Anton
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