Re: diff settings

From: Ted Pavlic <ted@tedpavlic.com>
Date: Jan 25, 2009, 21:02 UTC
Message-ID: <497CD352.2060402@tedpavlic.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.GSO.2.00.0901241159050.23073@kiwi.cs.ucla.edu>

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>>      git config --global alias.dff "diff -w"
>>
>> Then "git dff" is your new "git diff -w". :-)
>
> That feature is gonna come in handy.  It doesn't 100% fulfill my needs here but
> I like it!  Thanks, I did not know about alias.*

Mercurial has a "defaults.*" that does exactly what you want. That is, you can say

[defaults] diff = -w

and "hg diff" will automatically do "hg diff -w". Such a feature might be a nice addition to git.

--Ted

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