# --color-diff='.' considered useful 4 messages from 2015-11-16 to 2015-11-20. Participants: Michael J Gruber, Matthieu Moy. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/40807 ## Michael J Gruber, 2015-11-16 14:25 Subject: --color-diff='.' considered useful Message-ID: <5649E773.7040705@drmicha.warpmail.net> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/5649E773.7040705%40drmicha.warpmail.net ``` git tip of the day: git diff --color-words='.' git show --color-words='.' That will help you find that 1 character change that a failed default word split hides from your eyes. I guess everyone here will know already, but I found that super useful and much easier than trying to get a meaningful word split for that 100+ char TeX source line without a single space... Cheers, Michael ``` ## Matthieu Moy, 2015-11-16 14:34 Subject: Re: --color-diff='.' considered useful Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/vpq1tbq812p.fsf%40anie.imag.fr In-Reply-To: <5649E773.7040705@drmicha.warpmail.net> ``` Michael J Gruber writes: > git tip of the day: > > git diff --color-words='.' > git show --color-words='.' Probably my main usage of --color-words indeed (except I omit the single quotes ;-) ). I think this deserves an explicit mention in the doc. -- Matthieu Moy http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/ ``` ## Michael J Gruber, 2015-11-20 13:36 Subject: [PATCH] Documentation/diff: give --word-diff-regex=. example Message-ID: <6697f80b679b2bc910aa02a0fc945453be38c532.1448026505.git.git@drmicha.warpmail.net> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/6697f80b679b2bc910aa02a0fc945453be38c532.1448026505.git.git%40drmicha.warpmail.net In-Reply-To: ``` It's just so useful. Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber --- Documentation/diff-options.txt | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/diff-options.txt b/Documentation/diff-options.txt index d56ca90..306b7e3 100644 --- a/Documentation/diff-options.txt +++ b/Documentation/diff-options.txt @@ -267,6 +267,9 @@ expression to make sure that it matches all non-whitespace characters. A match that contains a newline is silently truncated(!) at the newline. + +For example, `--word-diff-regex=.` will treat each character as a word +and, correspondingly, show differences character by character. ++ The regex can also be set via a diff driver or configuration option, see linkgit:gitattributes[1] or linkgit:git-config[1]. Giving it explicitly overrides any diff driver or configuration setting. Diff drivers -- 2.6.3.507.gca54332 ``` ## Matthieu Moy, 2015-11-20 14:59 Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation/diff: give --word-diff-regex=. example Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/vpq1tbkhg2n.fsf%40anie.imag.fr In-Reply-To: <6697f80b679b2bc910aa02a0fc945453be38c532.1448026505.git.git@drmicha.warpmail.net> ``` Michael J Gruber writes: > It's just so useful. Confirmed-by: Matthieu Moy Thanks, -- Matthieu Moy http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/ ```