# diff --minimal as default?

2 messages from 2012-01-19 to 2012-01-19. Participants: Victor Engmark, Thomas Rast.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/29401

## Victor Engmark, 2012-01-19 13:41

Subject: diff --minimal as default?
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Git v1.7.8 supports `diff --minimal`. I've got cycles to spare and
usually small files - Is there (or will there be) a configuration
option to set this as the default? If not I'll just use an alias, but
there should still be an inverse option to be able to override it in
special cases.

Cheers,
V

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## Thomas Rast, 2012-01-19 14:22

Subject: Re: diff --minimal as default?
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Victor Engmark <victor.engmark@gmail.com> writes:

> Git v1.7.8 supports `diff --minimal`. I've got cycles to spare and
> usually small files - Is there (or will there be) a configuration
> option to set this as the default? If not I'll just use an alias, but
> there should still be an inverse option to be able to override it in
> special cases.

AFAIK no config option is planned; you could make a patch :-)

But there's --no-minimal, following the usual pattern for boolean
options.

-- 
Thomas Rast
trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch

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