Re: [PATCH] diff --check: use colour

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Jan 25, 2007, 23:41 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0701260034320.22628@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <17849.13327.527531.262943@lisa.zopyra.com>

Hi,

On Thu, 25 Jan 2007, Bill Lear wrote:

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> On Thursday, January 25, 2007 at 14:23:07 (-0800) Junio C Hamano writes:
> >...
> >Then
> >
> >	Seriously, this option needs to be documented.  Volunteers?
> 
> If you think someone new to git could do this, I would be happy to make 
> this my first contribution to the git community.
> 
> Tell me where to look for the thing to modify, how to modify it, and how 
> to tell you about what I did (etc.), and I'll give it a go.

The --check option is handled in diff.c (you can find out by e.g. "git grep -e --check -- \*"). Thus, it should be documented in Documentation/diff-options.txt.

The easiest way to find out what it does is to execute:

	git log -S--check diff.c

This will lead you to v1.4.0-rc1~110.

The file format for Documentation/*.txt is easily imitated by looking at the context, and maybe eventually "make doc" (you'll need asciidoc for that).

Once you made that change, just commit and make a patch with "git format-patch HEAD^". Submit. Be famous.

Thank you, Dscho