From: Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 05 Feb 2010 06:17:06 GMT
Subject: Re: Showing whitespace on minus lines of diff ouput
Message-ID: <76718491002042217g42e85a70r195cf75e0892dc54@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vr5p0kyp0.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 1:02 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> 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.