Re: [PATCH] diff: Support diff.color-words config option

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Jan 20, 2009, 06:59 UTC
Message-ID: <7v1vuympie.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <200901192145.21115.bss@iguanasuicide.net>

"Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." <bss@iguanasuicide.net> writes:

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> When diff is invoked with --color-words (w/o =regex), use the regular
> expression the user has configured as diff.color-words.
>
> diff drivers configured via attributes take precedence over the
> diff.color-words setting.  If the user wants to change them, they have
> their own configuration variables.

This needs an entry in Documentation/config.txt

None of the existing configuration variables defined use hyphens in multi-word variable names.

Other than that, I think this is a welcome addition to the suite.

Thanks.

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