Re: [PATCH] Resurrect diff-tree-helper -R

On Sat, 30 Apr 2005, Junio C Hamano wrote:

Diff-tree-helper take two patch inadvertently dropped the
support of -R option

Talking about the diffs, I'm beginning to hate those "mode" things.

Not only do they screw up diffstat (big deal), but they are pointless, 
since 99.9% of the time the mode stays the same.

So it would be much nicer (I think) if mode changes are handled 
separately, with a simple separate line before the diff saying

	"Mode change: %o->%o %s", oldmode, newmode, path

and not mess up the diff header. That way, you only see it when it
actually makes any difference, and it's more readable both for humans
_and_ machines as a result.

Normal "patch" will just ignore the extra lines before the diff anyway, so 
it won't matter there.

Comments?

		Linus