Re: [PATCH 2/4] Tweak diff output further to make it a bit less distracting.

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: May 17, 2005, 23:32 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0505171630130.18337@ppc970.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <7vsm0lqym3.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On Tue, 17 May 2005, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> 
> Now, in the new diff format, if the rename is really a pure
> rename, then we would have:
> 
>      diff -git a/nitfol b/nitfol
>      rename old frotz
>      rename new nitfol
>      diff -git a/rezrov b/rezrov
>      --- a/rezrov
>      +++ b/rezrov
>      @@ ...
> 
> that is, nothing until the patch for the next file or EOF.  Is
> this acceptable?

I think that's exactly what we want. At least it does exactly the right thing for me, when I do '/^diff ' in less, with nice highlighting of the headers.

With people inevitably adding some nice coloration support in gitweb etc, and it will be outstanding.

		Linus