Re: [PATCH 0/15] retain blob info for git diff HEAD:foo HEAD:bar

On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 11:44:46AM +0900, Junio C Hamano wrote:

Patches around [PATCH 06-08/15] made some unexpected (at least to
me) turns but the series told a coherent story, building on top of
what has been achieved in the previous steps.

Yeah, those patches are not technically required for the rest of it. The
"strbuf" conversion for oc->path is just something I've wanted to fix
for a long time. It made sense to me to do it before teaching
handle_dotdot() to look at oc->path (because the interface to do so
changed a bit).

-Peff