From: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2012 09:58:19 GMT
Subject: Re: A better git diff --word-diff (--word-diff-regex) ?
Message-ID: <4F67033B.2060904@viscovery.net>
In-Reply-To: <CAA01CsrJ12LmNYe6ujnDsZecJcGc8mFaB=1GC8-RZzvMYbYuUw@mail.gmail.com>

Am 3/19/2012 10:44, schrieb Piotr Krukowiecki:
> is there a way to configure --word-diff to be a more programming
> language friendly? For example if I add one parameter to a function
> declaration, I'd like to see only the addition of the parameter as the
> change. But currently it shows much more.
> 
> For example if
>   void foo(int x);
> is changed to
>   void foo(int x, int y);
> I'd like to see only ",int y" as the change, not "x, int y);".
> 
> I think I'd like to ignore all white spaces and tokenize text on word
> boundaries and see the diff between the tokens. This way if I e.g. add
> a missing ";" it'll be shown as the only change.

Start with

   git config diff.wordregex '[[:alnum:]]+|[^[:space:]]'

Adjust to your likings.

-- Hannes