From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2019 03:06:49 GMT
Subject: Re: allow a differn't diff.context config for git format-patch
Message-ID: <20190423030648.GA6344@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <CA+49okrda1=dV=rN23oFg7LQmRp+idkDDDxFQ9R5jhGJFHKpEg@mail.gmail.com>

On Sun, Apr 14, 2019 at 04:48:53PM -0500, Shawn Landden wrote:

> When I send patches I want them to have lots of context, but when just
> looking at a diff, I can always open the file for context.

Seems like a reasonable thing to want. You can already use "git
format-patch -U20 ...". The usual advice for putting that in config is
to define an alias wit your preferred option. I don't think it would be
too big a problem for format-patch to learn some options to configure
its diffs. We already have some options in format.* for various things.

-Peff