From: Keith Cascio <keith@cs.ucla.edu>
Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2009 21:11:29 GMT
Subject: Re: diff settings
Message-ID: <alpine.GSO.2.00.0901251307030.12651@kiwi.cs.ucla.edu>
In-Reply-To: <497CD352.2060402@tedpavlic.com>

On Sun, 25 Jan 2009, Ted Pavlic wrote:

> Mercurial has a "defaults.*" that does exactly what you want. That is, you can
> say
> 
> [defaults]
> diff = -w
> 
> and "hg diff" will automatically do "hg diff -w". Such a feature might be a 
> nice addition to git.

Thank you, that is very interesting.  I just submitted a patch this morning that 
does exactly what you describe, but I called it "primer" instead of "defaults" 
because it seemed more explicit.  Check it out.

                            -- Keith