Re: A better git diff --word-diff (--word-diff-regex) ?

From: Piotr Krukowiecki <piotr.krukowiecki@gmail.com>
Date: Mar 19, 2012, 17:06 UTC
Message-ID: <CAA01Cso5z9oT_MyFmGCJ0aV7EXb11k8zK4bJ9XBBLT3Yx_zpdw@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <87ipi0vs0q.fsf@thomas.inf.ethz.ch>

On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 10:50 AM, Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch> wrote:

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> Piotr Krukowiecki <piotr.krukowiecki@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> is there a way to configure --word-diff to be a more programming
>> language friendly? For example if I add one parameter to a function
>> declaration, I'd like to see only the addition of the parameter as the
>> change. But currently it shows much more.
>
> Umm, what's wrong with
>
>  echo '*.cpp diff=cpp' >>.git/info/attributes
>
> Ok, the funcname patterns aren't so good, but the word regex is designed
> to "tokenize" as far as that is feasible.

Thanks, that's very good! I've missed it reading the git-diff man page.

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Piotr Krukowiecki