From: Petr Baudis Date: Sun, 29 May 2005 12:02:49 GMT Subject: Re: -p diff output and the 'Index:' line 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 told me that... > >>>>> "PB" == Petr Baudis 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. > 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. :-) -- Petr "Pasky" Baudis Stuff: http://pasky.or.cz/ C++: an octopus made by nailing extra legs onto a dog. -- Steve Taylor