RE: git with custom diff for commits

From: Gerald Gutierrez <ggmlfs@gmail.com>
Date: Dec 18, 2007, 20:48 UTC
Message-ID: <000101c841b7$5f1d1060$762a14ac@na.acco.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vzlw7ybx7.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

Yes, but wouldn't it be slick to actually teach git's internal diff to do things like GNU diff can, like the ignore option -I, case insensitivity, etc. I thought that's what the external diff capability is for, but it is not so.

Gerald.

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Junio C Hamano [mailto:gitster@pobox.com] 
> Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2007 12:40 PM
> To: Gerald Gutierrez
> Cc: 'Junio C Hamano'; 'Matthieu Moy'; 'Johannes Schindelin'; 
> git@vger.kernel.org
> Subject: Re: git with custom diff for commits
> 
> "Gerald Gutierrez" <ggmlfs@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > I ended up doing the following, which sounds similar to the above. 
> > Instead of doing mysqldump into data.sql, it goes into data.sql.2 
> > which I compare with the checked in data.sql using "diff -I 
> <timestamp 
> > RE>". If there are no differences, I delete data.sql.2. If 
> there are 
> > differences, I move
> > data.sql.2 into data.sql and check in. Perhaps not as elegant but 
> > certainly works.
> 
> Heh, that's essentially how automated html/man branches are 
> managed ;-)