Hi, On Thu, 15 Mar 2007, Alex Riesen wrote: > On 3/15/07, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> wrote: > > > > (That, however, works only if you do not want something like "git diff > > > > -w"...) > > > > > > Why? Can't "git diff -w" quit early? > > > > No, but "-w" means "ignore white space", which means that blobs can be > > deemed equal, even if they differ at the byte-per-byte level. > > So it can leave early as soon as it found a difference on byte level > and the difference is not white space, can't it? Yes. The point I tried to make: without "-w" or "-b", you can compare at the tree level. No need for a --quiet option. (Of course, you showed me that you'd need it for index-tree comparisons anyway.) Ciao, Dscho - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html