# diff: Add support for man(7) pages 1 messages from 2022-10-20 to 2022-10-20. Participants: Alejandro Colomar. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/58657 ## Alejandro Colomar, 2022-10-20 12:19 Subject: diff: Add support for man(7) pages Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/ce09bfae-091f-7c62-5e40-2784906d5370%40gmail.com ``` Hi! I added the following to my gitconfig and attributes files to improve diffs in manual pages. Would you mind adding support for them in git(1)? Thanks, Alex P.S.: The extension I used in the attributes file is imperfect, since a glob wouldn't allow me as much precission as a regex. With a regex, it would be written as '\.[1-9][[:lower:]]*$'. --- git: diff "man": Correctly interpret man(7) pages. Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar diff --git a/home/user/.config/git/attributes b/home/user/.config/git/attributes new file mode 100644 index 0000000..652558f --- /dev/null +++ b/home/user/.config/git/attributes @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +*.[1-9]* diff=man diff --git a/home/user/.gitconfig b/home/user/.gitconfig index 72ddc50..adb6cbb 100644 --- a/home/user/.gitconfig +++ b/home/user/.gitconfig @@ -27,3 +27,5 @@ signingKey = A9348594CE31283A826FBDD8D57633D441E25BB5 [diff] algorithm = histogram +[diff "man"] + xfuncname = "^\\.S[SH] .*$" -- ```