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authorJunio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>2005-06-19 13:17:50 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org>2005-06-19 20:13:18 -0700
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[PATCH] Rework -B output.
Patch for a completely rewritten file detected by the -B flag was shown as a pair of creation followed by deletion in earlier versions. This was an misguided attempt to make reviewing such a complete rewrite easier, and unnecessarily ended up confusing git-apply. Instead, show the entire contents of old version prefixed with '-', followed by the entire contents of new version prefixed with '+'. This gives the same easy-to-review for human consumer while keeping it a single, regular modification patch for machine consumption, something that even GNU patch can grok. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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diff --git a/Documentation/diffcore.txt b/Documentation/diffcore.txt
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--- a/Documentation/diffcore.txt
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@@ -191,6 +191,15 @@ like these:
-B/60 (the same as above, since diffcore-break defautls to
50%).
+Note that earlier implementation left a broken pair as a separate
+creation and deletion patches. This was unnecessary hack and
+the latest implementation always merges all the broken pairs
+back into modifications, but the resulting patch output is
+formatted differently to still let the reviewing easier for such
+a complete rewrite by showing the entire contents of old version
+prefixed with '-', followed by the entire contents of new
+version prefixed with '+'.
+
diffcore-pickaxe
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