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.

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