From: Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi>
Date: Fri, 02 May 2008 10:01:54 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make words boundary for --color-words configurable
Message-ID: <20080502100154.GB11420@mithlond.arda.local>
In-Reply-To: <20080502081408.GA11420@mithlond.arda.local>

Teemu Likonen wrote (2008-05-02 11:14 +0300):

> > On Fri, 2 May 2008, Ping Yin wrote:
> > 
> > > Previously --color-words only allow spaces as words boundary.
> > > However, just space is not enough. For example, when i rename
> > > a function from foo to bar, following example doesn't show as
> > > expected when using --color-words.

> Just a quick note from someone who is not so much a programmer but who
> uses Git to track text/LaTex/etc. files with human languages: 

And let me add a sidenote that, at least to me, --color-words is the
tool for doing diffs of human language text files. I think it's a lot
more useful than normal diff.