Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes: > Feeding just blob ids has a big drawback: we don't have any context! So > you get bogus filenames in the patch, no mode data, and so on. And the lack of filenames and the tree object name at the root level means you do not get anything out of the attribute subsystem, which in turn may affect a few more things. Unfortunately the format used in the output from "diff --raw" does not capture this. Does this want to be a building block for the server side diff? Would it be a bit too low level for each "request" to comparing only two blob objects? Can we place a lot more assumptions on the relationship among blob pairs that appear in the --stdin request (e.g., they all come from the same tree and share the same attr stack to look up attributes applicable for them)?
