From: Brian Lalor <blalor@bravo5.org>
Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2016 10:39:32 GMT
Subject: bug: compactionheuristic config var case issue
Message-ID: <8C006106-EED2-48B5-B9A5-6FCEB64597C1@bravo5.org>

I’m very happy to see the new compaction heuristic option; it’s the way I always thought diffs should read!  

The config option in the documentation references “diff.compactionHeuristic”, but diff.c does a case-sensitive comparison on “diff.compactionheuristic” (note the case of the “h” in “heuristic”) and `git diff` does not honor the config.  Confusingly, `git config diff.compactionheuristic` returns true when diff.compactionHeuristic is set in ~/.gitconfig.  When diff.compactionheuristic is set to true in ~/.gitconfig, the desired behavior is achieved.

Thank you all for Git: it’s hard to remember the terrible world we lived in before it existed. :-)