From: Alban Gruin <alban.gruin@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2018 15:05:34 GMT
Subject: Re: java diffs show no method context
Message-ID: <aae8d748-101d-1eb2-f8e8-9da2e53e2388@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <5AE07A3A020000A10002B5C5@gwsmtp1.uni-regensburg.de>

Le 25/04/2018 à 14:53, Ulrich Windl a écrit :
> Hi!
> 
> This is for git 2.13.6, and it may be an FAQ or frequent feature request. Anyway:
> I'm new to Java, and writing my first project using Git, I found that "git diff" only reports the class in the diff context, but not the method (as seen for C, for example).
> I'd wish to have the method where the diff is located.

Hi,

to achieve this behaviour, you have to create a file named
".gitattributes" at the root of your project, containing this line:

*.java diff=java

.gitattributes allows you to configure other things, as described in the
documentation[1].

I hope it helps.

[1] https://www.git-scm.com/docs/gitattributes

Cheers,
Alban