From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 05 Feb 2010 03:03:48 GMT
Subject: Re: Showing whitespace on minus lines of diff ouput
Message-ID: <7veil0o02z.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <76718491002041747t327bf2f5l85e095244f6ee1ed@mail.gmail.com>

Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com> writes:

> The colored diff output is quite helpful to show introductions of whitespace.
>
> However, if whitespace has been removed, it's impossible to see in the
> diff output since whitespace is colorized on '+' lines, but not '-'
> lines.
>
> I'm looking at diff.c, but wow. Can someone more familiar with this
> file point me toward how I'd make a patch to colorize whitespace on
> '-' lines as well?

Totally uninterested.  "diff -R" would be enough, wouldn't it?