This crate includes the various diffs git can do between different representations
of the repository state, like comparisons between…
- index and working tree
- tree and index
…while also being able to check if the working tree is dirty, quickly, by instructing the operation to stop once the first change was found.
Tree-Index Status
This status is not actually implemented here as it's not implemented directly. Instead, one creates an Index from a tree
and then diffs two indices with gix_diff::index(index_from_tree, usually_dot_git_index). This adds about 15% to the runtime
and comes at the cost of another index in memory.
Once there are generators implementing depth-first tree iteration should become trivial, but for now it's very hard if one
wants to return referenced state of the iterator (which is not possible).
Difference to gix-diff
Technically, status is just another form of diff between different kind of sides, i.e. an index and a working tree.
This is the difference to gix-diff, which compares only similar items.