From: David Brown <git@davidb.org>
Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2007 23:43:10 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC] best way to show diff of commit
Message-ID: <20071125234310.GA26458@old.davidb.org>
In-Reply-To: <7vfxyuj70i.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Sun, Nov 25, 2007 at 02:27:09PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>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