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Re: -p diff output and the 'Index:' line

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Sean <seanlkml@sympatico.ca>
Date
May 29, 2005, 07:52 UTC
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On Sun, May 29, 2005 3:41 am, Junio C Hamano said:
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>>>>>> "PB" == Petr Baudis <pasky@ucw.cz> writes:
>
> PB>   What do you think? Would you hate it to show up in the diffs, or are
> PB> you ok with it?
>
> I cannot tell if you are asking about cg-diff or changing the
> built-in diff-* output.  The Subject: line suggests you are
> talking about the latter, but if that is the case I have to
> admit that I am not that sympathetic to Index: nor separator.
>
> Like Linus, I do "/^diff --git .*" in my less sessions, which
> gives a very nice highlighted separator line without wasting a
> single line on the terminal.  If any of the readers on the list
> didn't know about this trick (especially the trailing .* part),
> please try it.  I'm certain everybody would love it.

It's good to know you can wrap this into a shell script too, which saves you having to type the search string in "less" each time... something like:

git-diff-tree "$@" | git-diff-helper | less -p "^diff --git .*"
Sean
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Message 3 of 9 in “-p diff output and the 'Index:' line”
  1. Petr BaudisMay 29, 2005
  2. Junio C HamanoMay 29, 2005
  3. SeanMay 29, 2005
  4. Thomas GlanzmannMay 29, 2005
  5. Petr BaudisMay 29, 2005
  6. Junio C HamanoMay 29, 2005
  7. Petr BaudisMay 29, 2005
  8. Junio C HamanoMay 30, 2005
  9. Petr BaudisMay 30, 2005

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