From: Junio C Hamano Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2006 10:54:25 GMT Subject: Re: [RFC] Add the --color-words option to the diff options family Message-ID: <7vbqr66o4e.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> In-Reply-To: Johannes Schindelin writes: > 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 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 ;-).