Re: [PATCH] diff: add support for reading files literally with --no-index

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On Wed, Jan 02, 2019 at 10:56:45AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> This is good as a goal, but the implementation seems to be overly
> eager to dereference any symlink or non-regular file found in any
> level of recursion.  The use case presented as the justification in
> the proposed log message, and the explanation in the documentation,
> suggests that only the paths given from the command line are treated
> this way.
> 
> It may make sense to do this as two orthgonal flags.  Dereference
> symlinks and named pipes given from the command line is one use
> case.  Dereference any symlinks encountered during recursion is
> another.  And the latter might be useful even inside a repository
> as an option, even though the former would never make sense unless
> running in --no-index mode.

Yeah, I definitely think I'll be doing a reroll to address the recursion
issue as Peff suggested. I've just been on vacation and will be
traveling again soon, so I haven't gotten to it yet. Feel free to wait
for the reroll before picking it up.
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brian m. carlson: Houston, Texas, US
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