On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 7:41 AM, Matt McClure <matthewlmccl...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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.
I took a crack at implementing the change to make difftool -d use symlinks more aggressively. I've tested it lightly, and it works for the limited cases I've tried. This is my first foray into the Git source code, so it's entirely possible that there are unintended side effects and regressions if other features depend on the same code path and make different assumptions. https://github.com/matthewlmcclure/git/compare/difftool-directory-symlink-work-tree Your thoughts on the change? -- Matt McClure http://www.matthewlmcclure.com http://www.mapmyfitness.com/profile/matthewlmcclure -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
