Re: [PATCH] diff: Support diff.color-words config option

From: Markus Heidelberg <markus.heidelberg@web.de>
Date: Jan 21, 2009, 19:37 UTC
Message-ID: <200901212037.07014.markus.heidelberg@web.de>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0901202202370.3586@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>

Johannes Schindelin, 20.01.2009:

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> Hi,
> 
> On Tue, 20 Jan 2009, Markus Heidelberg wrote:
> 
> > Junio C Hamano, 20.01.2009:
> > > None of the existing configuration variables defined use hyphens in
> > > multi-word variable names.
> > 
> > Except for diff.suppress-blank-empty
> > Should it be converted or is it intention to reflect GNU diff's option?
> 
> Grumble.  It's in v1.6.1-rc1~348, so we cannot just go ahead and fix it.

Did I say change it without keeping backward compatibility?

> Ciao,
> Dscho "who loves consistency, and knows new users appreciate it, too"

Me, too.

Markus

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