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Re: -p diff output and the 'Index:' line

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Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date
May 29, 2005, 07:41 UTC
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>>>>> "PB" == Petr Baudis <pasky@ucw.cz> writes:

PB> What do you think? Would you hate it to show up in the diffs, or are PB> you ok with it?

I cannot tell if you are asking about cg-diff or changing the built-in diff-* output. The Subject: line suggests you are talking about the latter, but if that is the case I have to admit that I am not that sympathetic to Index: nor separator.

Like Linus, I do "/^diff --git .*" in my less sessions, which gives a very nice highlighted separator line without wasting a single line on the terminal. If any of the readers on the list didn't know about this trick (especially the trailing .* part), please try it. I'm certain everybody would love it.

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