From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 13:15:44 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add the diff option --no-defaults
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0904171514440.6675@intel-tinevez-2-302>
In-Reply-To: <20090417115414.GA29121@coredump.intra.peff.net>

Hi,

On Fri, 17 Apr 2009, Jeff King wrote:

> But I think all of this is just ending up in the same place that Keith 
> and I arrived at much earlier in the thread: you _are_ choosing a 
> poison, and his patch was meant to avoid that. The question is whether 
> the added code complexity is worth it.

Well, I think I gave my answer in the form of two patches.

Besides, you still will have a poison:

	git config diff.defaultOptions --no-defaults

which is Russel's paradoxon right there.

Ciao,
Dscho