Re: -p diff output and the 'Index:' line

From: Petr Baudis <pasky@ucw.cz>
Date: May 29, 2005, 12:02 UTC
Message-ID: <20050529120248.GD1036@pasky.ji.cz>
In-Reply-To: <7vd5raqy28.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Dear diary, on Sun, May 29, 2005 at 09:41:03AM CEST, I got a letter where Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> told me that...

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> >>>>> "PB" == Petr Baudis <pasky@ucw.cz> writes:
> 
> PB>   What do you think? Would you hate it to show up in the diffs, or are
> PB> you ok with it?
> 
> I cannot tell if you are asking about cg-diff or changing the
> built-in diff-* output.  The Subject: line suggests you are
> talking about the latter, but if that is the case I have to
> admit that I am not that sympathetic to Index: nor separator.

Yes, I'm talking about the latter.

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> Like Linus, I do "/^diff --git .*" in my less sessions, which
> gives a very nice highlighted separator line without wasting a
> single line on the terminal.  If any of the readers on the list
> didn't know about this trick (especially the trailing .* part),
> please try it.  I'm certain everybody would love it.

When I do just cg-diff to see what I changed I usually do not pipe it to less, and typing that / stuff seems insane (although /^d.* could give a good approximation). OTOH I think I'll go for the diff output colorification (at the Cogito level), so the separator indeed isn't strictly necessary. I can live without it. :-)

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