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Re: [RFC] best way to show diff of commit

From
David Brown <git@davidb.org>
Date
Nov 25, 2007, 23:43 UTC
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On Sun, Nov 25, 2007 at 02:27:09PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
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>Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian.org> writes:
>
>>   Hmm it doesn't because I would have to call git commit -v each time I
>> commit and well I _like_ having the status better. And moreover I want
>> the diff to go in a separated buffer too.
>
>I've never felt it a problem while editing the log message in Emacs.
>
>Don't enhanced vi implementations let you split the same buffer into
>two allowing you to view different portions of it these days?

Yes, certainly with vim, which is what most distributions seem to include as the enhanced vim. I have noticed that there seem to be fewer vim users that figure out these kinds of things than emacs users, though.

Dave
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Message 8 of 14 in “[RFC] best way to show diff of commit”
  1. Pierre HabouzitNov 25, 2007
  2. J. Bruce FieldsNov 25, 2007
  3. Pierre HabouzitNov 25, 2007
  4. Junio C HamanoNov 25, 2007
  5. Pierre HabouzitNov 25, 2007
  6. Junio C HamanoNov 25, 2007
  7. Pierre HabouzitNov 25, 2007
  8. David BrownNov 25, 2007
  9. Jan HudecNov 26, 2007
  10. Pierre HabouzitNov 26, 2007
  11. Pierre HabouzitNov 26, 2007
  12. Make builtin-commit.c export GIT_INDEX_FILE for launch_editor as well.Pierre Habouzit, Nov 26, 2007
  13. Pierre HabouzitNov 26, 2007
  14. Kristian HøgsbergNov 26, 2007

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