From: Sean <seanlkml@sympatico.ca>
Date: Sun, 29 May 2005 07:52:38 GMT
Subject: Re: -p diff output and the 'Index:' line
Message-ID: <2788.10.10.10.24.1117353158.squirrel@linux1>
In-Reply-To: <7vd5raqy28.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On Sun, May 29, 2005 3:41 am, Junio C Hamano said:
>>>>>> "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