From: Petr Baudis Date: Mon, 16 May 2005 22:05:59 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] Tweak diff output further to make it a bit less distracting. Message-ID: <20050516220559.GC8609@pasky.ji.cz> In-Reply-To: <7vvf5kqj9l.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> Dear diary, on Sun, May 15, 2005 at 11:19:50PM CEST, I got a letter where Junio C Hamano told me that... > Adds an newline between each diff. Also change "#mode : " > string, which was misleading in that we are not showing just > mode when we talk about a file changing into a symlink. > > Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano So, I've been looking at the output, and I have to admit that I'm still not too happy with it (I know I'm horrible). It turned out to be rather confusing, since there are normally no blank lines in the middle of the diffs, so it looked as the blank lines were actually part of the diffed files. What about just throwing away the newlines and just passing '@.'? -- Petr "Pasky" Baudis Stuff: http://pasky.or.cz/ C++: an octopus made by nailing extra legs onto a dog. -- Steve Taylor