Re: Question: Getting 'git diff' to generate /usr/bin/diff output

From: norm@dad.org <norm@dad.org>
Date: Jul 17, 2016, 17:26 UTC
Message-ID: <201607171726.u6HHQShO005227@shell1.rawbw.com>
In-Reply-To: <578B7779.6090507@web.de>

<l.s.r@web.de> writes:

>
>The other replies covered how to use the system's own diff instead.
>Just curious: What makes using git diff difficult and its output hard to
>deal with for you?

In decreasing importance order:

I am 84 years old. I have been using /usr/bin/diff for more than four decades. And having to learn how to read the output of 'git diff' makes learning how to use git a more difficult trick for this old dog to learn. True, the diff of today is very different from the diff of 1972, but the changes happened gradually.

I have scripts which process the output of /usr/bin/diff.

'git diff' outputs escape characters which clutter my terminal. Yes, I can sed them out, but then why are they there?

    Norman Shapiro