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Re: [PATCH v2] Do not show "diff --git" metainfo with --no-prefix

From
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Jan 17, 2008, 14:49 UTC
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<20080117144914.GA2816@coredump.intra.peff.net>
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On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 01:48:54AM +0000, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
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> > While we are discussing about diff, there is one thing that has been 
> > bugging me occasionally, but the annoyance factor has not motivated me 
> > enough to look into it myself, because I do not use it often: 
> > --color-words.  It appears that it shows lines that do not have any word 
> > differences in bold (whatever diff.color.meta is configured) and I think 
> > it should use plain color instead.
> > 
> > Was this intentional, or just a simple plain bug?
> 
> Plain bug.  I even meant to implement your suggestion of having a variable 
> set of non-word characters, but never came around to work on it.

Hmm. I happen to set my "meta" color to something a little less attention-grabbing (magenta), and I find the alternate coloring to be a nice visual indicator of "nothing happened on this line". I can see how bold would be very distracting, though. Perhaps there should be a color.diff.unimportant?

-Peff
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  1. Chris OrtmanJan 15, 2008
  2. Johannes SchindelinJan 15, 2008
  3. Chris OrtmanJan 15, 2008
  4. Johannes SchindelinJan 15, 2008
  5. Chris OrtmanJan 15, 2008
  6. Johannes SchindelinJan 15, 2008
  7. Chris OrtmanJan 15, 2008
  8. Johannes SchindelinJan 15, 2008
  9. Chris OrtmanJan 15, 2008
  10. Jan HudecJan 15, 2008
  11. Miles BaderJan 16, 2008
  12. Shawn O. PearceJan 16, 2008
  13. Pascal ObryJan 15, 2008
  14. Daniel BarkalowJan 15, 2008
  15. Junio C HamanoJan 16, 2008
  16. Do not show "diff --git" metainfo with --no-prefixJunio C Hamano, Jan 16, 2008
  17. Johannes SchindelinJan 16, 2008
  18. Junio C HamanoJan 16, 2008
  19. Johannes SchindelinJan 16, 2008
  20. Daniel BarkalowJan 16, 2008
  21. Junio C HamanoJan 16, 2008
  22. Do not show "diff --git" metainfo with --no-prefixJunio C Hamano, Jan 16, 2008
  23. Linus TorvaldsJan 16, 2008
  24. Linus TorvaldsJan 16, 2008
  25. Daniel BarkalowJan 16, 2008
  26. Linus TorvaldsJan 16, 2008
  27. Junio C HamanoJan 16, 2008
  28. Daniel BarkalowJan 16, 2008
  29. Junio C HamanoJan 17, 2008
  30. Johannes SchindelinJan 17, 2008
  31. Junio C HamanoJan 17, 2008
  32. Johannes SchindelinJan 17, 2008
  33. Junio C HamanoJan 17, 2008
  34. Junio C HamanoJan 17, 2008
  35. Johannes SchindelinJan 17, 2008
  36. Junio C HamanoJan 17, 2008
  37. Johannes SchindelinJan 17, 2008
  38. Jeff KingJan 17, 2008
  39. Jeff KingJan 17, 2008
  40. Johannes SchindelinJan 17, 2008
  41. Jeff KingJan 17, 2008
  42. Junio C HamanoJan 18, 2008
  43. Junio C HamanoJan 16, 2008
  44. Daniel BarkalowJan 16, 2008
  45. Jan HudecJan 19, 2008
  46. Junio C HamanoJan 16, 2008
  47. Chris OrtmanJan 16, 2008
  48. Jean-Luc HerrenJan 15, 2008
  49. Chris OrtmanJan 15, 2008
  50. Daniel BarkalowJan 16, 2008
  51. Nigel MagnayMar 11, 2008
  52. Jan HudecMar 11, 2008
  53. Daniel BarkalowMar 12, 2008

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