From: Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi>
Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2009 19:33:59 GMT
Subject: Re: diff settings
Message-ID: <87ocxwv6qg.fsf@iki.fi>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.GSO.2.00.0901240936080.23073@kiwi.cs.ucla.edu>

Keith Cascio (2009-01-24 09:38 -0800) wrote:

> How do I configure my local git so that diff always obeys a particular
> option, e.g. "-w", without needing to type it on the command line each
> time?

It seems that the answer is "no", but aliases are a work-around:

    git config --global alias.dff "diff -w"

Then "git dff" is your new "git diff -w". :-)