From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 01:48:54 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Do not show "diff --git" metainfo with --no-prefix
Message-ID: <alpine.LSU.1.00.0801170147350.17650@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <7vabn5mdz7.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

Hi,

On Wed, 16 Jan 2008, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> While we are discussing about diff, there is one thing that has been 
> bugging me occasionally, but the annoyance factor has not motivated me 
> enough to look into it myself, because I do not use it often: 
> --color-words.  It appears that it shows lines that do not have any word 
> differences in bold (whatever diff.color.meta is configured) and I think 
> it should use plain color instead.
> 
> Was this intentional, or just a simple plain bug?

Plain bug.  I even meant to implement your suggestion of having a variable 
set of non-word characters, but never came around to work on it.  
Hopefully this weekend...

Ciao,
Dscho