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Re: Showing whitespace on minus lines of diff ouput

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Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com>
Date
Feb 5, 2010, 06:17 UTC
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On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 1:02 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
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> Actually the reason I don't like the idea to highlight corrected errors
> was not just because "'diff -R' is enough".
>
> The coloring of whitespace errors are like compiler warnings, at least to
> me, and giving similar highlighting to corrected ones defeats the purpose
> by making the output more distracting..
That makes perfect sense. I didn't think it through very well. :-)
j.
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