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Re: [PATCH v1 1/3] Introduce config variable "diff.primer"

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Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date
Jan 25, 2009, 18:17 UTC
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Hi,
On Sun, 25 Jan 2009, Keith Cascio wrote:
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> Introduce config variable "diff.primer".
> Allows user to specify arbitrary options
> to pass to diff on every invocation,
> including internal invocations from other
> programs, e.g. git-gui.

That would break existing scripts using "git diff" rather badly. We already did not allow something like "git config alias.diff ..." from changing the behavior of "git diff", so I cannot find a reason why we should let diff.primer (a misnomer BTW) override the behavior.

Ciao, Dscho

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  1. 0/3 Introduce config variable "diff.primer"Keith Cascio, Jan 25, 2009
  2. 1/3 Introduce config variable "diff.primer"Keith Cascio, Jan 25, 2009
  3. 2/3 Test functionality of new config variable "diff.primer"Keith Cascio, Jan 25, 2009
  4. 3/3 git-gui hooks for new config variable "diff.primer"Keith Cascio, Jan 25, 2009
  5. Johannes SchindelinJan 25, 2009
  6. Keith CascioJan 25, 2009
  7. Johannes SchindelinJan 25, 2009
  8. Keith CascioJan 25, 2009
  9. Johannes SchindelinJan 25, 2009
  10. Keith CascioJan 25, 2009
  11. Jeff KingJan 25, 2009
  12. Keith CascioJan 25, 2009
  13. Jeff KingJan 25, 2009
  14. Junio C HamanoJan 25, 2009
  15. Junio C HamanoJan 26, 2009
  16. Keith CascioJan 26, 2009
  17. Jeff KingJan 26, 2009
  18. Junio C HamanoJan 26, 2009
  19. Keith CascioJan 26, 2009
  20. Jeff KingJan 26, 2009
  21. Junio C HamanoJan 26, 2009
  22. Jeff KingJan 26, 2009
  23. Johannes SchindelinJan 26, 2009
  24. Jeff KingJan 26, 2009
  25. backwards compatibility, was Re: [PATCH v1 1/3] Introduce config variable "diff.primer"Johannes Schindelin, Jan 26, 2009
  26. Jeff KingJan 26, 2009
  27. Johannes SchindelinJan 26, 2009
  28. Jeff KingJan 26, 2009
  29. Keith CascioJan 27, 2009
  30. Jay SoffianJan 26, 2009
  31. Jeff KingJan 26, 2009
  32. Jay SoffianJan 26, 2009
  33. Junio C HamanoJan 26, 2009
  34. Jay SoffianJan 26, 2009
  35. Jeff KingJan 26, 2009
  36. Junio C HamanoJan 26, 2009
  37. Junio C HamanoJan 25, 2009
  38. Keith CascioJan 25, 2009
  39. Jeff KingJan 25, 2009
  40. Keith CascioJan 27, 2009
  41. Jeff KingJan 27, 2009

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