From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2009 18:17:48 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 1/3] Introduce config variable "diff.primer"
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0901251916010.14855@racer>
In-Reply-To: <1232904657-31831-2-git-send-email-keith@cs.ucla.edu>

Hi,

On Sun, 25 Jan 2009, Keith Cascio wrote:

> 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