From: Nanako Shiraishi <nanako3@lavabit.com>
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 13:17:40 GMT
Subject: Re: diff attribute ignored by show and log -p
Message-ID: <20091217221740.6117@nanako3.lavabit.com>
In-Reply-To: <76718490912162123r49f9bd90n8e032c144d0cdbac@mail.gmail.com>

Quoting Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com>

>> But is apparently ignored by "git log -p" and "git show" which just
>> use internal diff. Is this behavior intentional?
>
> Ah, --ext-diff, and the reasoning behind requiring it for log/show is
> explained in 72909be.

The need to give --ext-diff is mentioned in 72909be (Add diff-option
--ext-diff, 2007-06-30) but its log message doesn't 'explain' why external
diff isn't used by default and you need to pass that extra option.

Probably --ext-diff should be the default?

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Nanako Shiraishi
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