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Re: [RFC] Add the --color-words option to the diff options family

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Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date
Jul 31, 2006, 10:54 UTC
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Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
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> With this option, the changed words are shown inline. For example,
> if a file containing "This is foo" is changed to "This is bar", the diff
> will now show "This is " in plain text, "foo" in red, and "bar" in green.
>
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>

This looks sooooooooooo strange (and I do not particularly like colours, so I am biased). We might want to disable it when the output would not be colored under diff.color = auto, at least, but if the user asks to shoot himself in the foot that is fine as well ;-).

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  1. Johannes SchindelinJul 28, 2006
  2. Matthias LederhoferJul 30, 2006
  3. Johannes SchindelinJul 30, 2006
  4. Junio C HamanoJul 31, 2006
  5. Johannes SchindelinJul 31, 2006

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