Re: difftool -d symlinks, under what conditions
From: Matt McClure <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:55:26
On Tuesday, November 27, 2012, David Aguilar wrote:
It seems that there is an edge case here that we are not accounting for: unmodified worktree paths, when checked out into the temporary directory, can be edited by the tool when comparing against older commits. These edits will be lost.
Yes. That is exactly my desired use case. I want to make edits while I'm reviewing the diff.
When we can do that then we avoid needing to have a temporary directory altogether for any dir-diffs that involve the worktree.
I think the temporary directory is still a good thing. Without it, the directory diff tool would have no way to distinguish a file added in the diff from a file that was preexisting and unmodified. -- Matt McClure http://www.matthewlmcclure.com http://www.mapmyfitness.com/profile/matthewlmcclure