On 2008-08-05 13:07:17 -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Karl Hasselström <kha@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> > I'm trying to use diff-tree --stdin to diff several trees in one
> > go. But I just get error messages when I feed it two
> > space-separated trees (one commit works fine):
>
> No, the documentation was made wrong during 1.2.0 timeperiod.
>
> The feature of --stdin to take a commit and its parents on one line was
> broken before that to support the common
>
> rev-list --parents $commits... -- $paths... |
> diff-tree --stdin -v -p
>
> usage pattern by Porcelains. For diff-tree to talk sensibly about
> commits, it needs to see commits, not just trees.
But is there any fundamental reason why it couldn't accept tree-ishes
as well? It only talks about commits if asked to do so with
command-line options.
Or would that break existing users somehow?
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Karl Hasselström, kha@xxxxxxxxxxx
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