On Fri, Jun 23, 2017 at 1:07 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Stefan Beller writes:
>
>> diff --git a/new.txt b/new.txt
>> index fa69b07..412428c 100644
>> Binary files a/new.txt and b/new.txt differ
>>
>> could be buffered as
>> DIFF_SYMBOL_DIFF_START + new.txt
>> DIFF_SYMBOL_INDEX_MODE + fa69b07 412428c "non-executable" flag
>> DIFF_SYMBOL_BINARY_FILES + new.txt
>
> Hopefully this is an oversimplified example and I'd assume that you
> will do the right thing when showing a renamed filepair by allowing
> both old and new paths that could be different?
Yes, this is simplified to drive the point of having as little data as possible,
so I thought we might have a flag that says "same file name" instead of giving
the file name twice.
We do not do such an optimization yet.
