Re: Proposal: sharing .git/config

From: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Date: Feb 19, 2013, 10:39 UTC
Message-ID: <87vc9osi3u.fsf@pctrast.inf.ethz.ch>
In-Reply-To: <CALkWK0m--MbtNzGH9hNPCCLJWhv6rjF9Y=WQ4qnHUFnE61p6kw@mail.gmail.com>

Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com> writes:

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> Thomas Rast wrote:
>> Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com> writes:
>>> There are also other things in .git/config that would be nice to
>>> share, like whether to do a --word-diff (why isn't it a configuration
>>> variable yet?)
>>
>> Because that would break pretty much every script that uses git-diff?
>
> diff.c already makes a differentiation between git_diff_ui_config()
> and git_diff_basic_config(); there are  configuration options that
> should only be applied when the command is called interactively.

It still breaks every other use of diff unless you make the diff output depend on whether the user runs directly at the terminal (possibly using git's own paging).

For example, if you just say something like 'git diff >file' for inclusion in an email, you expect that to be a git-apply compatible diff.

-- 
Thomas Rast
trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch