From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, ZheNing Hu <adlternative@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] diff: --{rotate,skip}-to=<path>
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2021 09:54:40 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqq35y1w4rj.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <nycvar.QRO.7.76.6.2102121713390.29765@tvgsbejvaqbjf.bet> (Johannes Schindelin's message of "Fri, 12 Feb 2021 17:15:09 +0100 (CET)")
Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
> This is more a drive-by comment, as I have no stake in this, but don't we
> already have a more generic solution via `-O<orderfile>`? See
> https://git-scm.com/docs/git-diff#Documentation/git-diff.txt--Oltorderfilegt
> for details.
The use cases are quite different. This one is meant for a
single-shot use, while orderfile is a more permanent thing.
See https://lore.kernel.org/git/xmqqeehp2jis.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com/
and start reading from "I suspect that" for background story.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-02-12 17:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-02-11 21:32 [PATCH] diff: --{rotate,skip}-to=<path> Junio C Hamano
2021-02-12 16:15 ` Johannes Schindelin
2021-02-12 17:54 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
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