Re: Changes not appearing on glibc-cvs or libc-alpha

[Jim Meyering <jim at meyering dot net>]

Joseph S. Myers wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Aug 2012, Roland McGrath wrote:
>
>> > Now branch-creation isn't showing diffs, e.g.
>> > <http://sourceware.org/ml/glibc-cvs/2012-q3/msg00305.html>.  Although it's
>> > diffs for master and release branches I care more about, I think they
>> > ought to be shown when other branches are created as well.
>>
>> Please experiment with the script locally and decide exactly which settings
>> you want.
>
> I suggest going back to the settings we had before (git show command
> present, diffopts not set), but keeping the newer version of the script,
> until we can understand why the script is apparently thinking revisions
> are not new in certain cases when they are new.

I did that, and left this set in .git/config:

  hooks.diffopts=--stat --summary --find-copies-harder

I could have removed the setting altogether, but they're
not likely to change.