* Feature Request: Add diff.word-diff <mode> and perhaps diff.word-diff-regex <regex> configuration options to enable always using word-diffs in git diff
@ 2018-04-14 20:02 Doron Behar
2018-04-14 20:07 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
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From: Doron Behar @ 2018-04-14 20:02 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: git
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I've just came across the wonderful command line option for `git diff`:
`--word-diff`. It could be great to have a configuration option that
will enable this feature by default when running `git diff`.
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* Re: Feature Request: Add diff.word-diff <mode> and perhaps diff.word-diff-regex <regex> configuration options to enable always using word-diffs in git diff
2018-04-14 20:02 Feature Request: Add diff.word-diff <mode> and perhaps diff.word-diff-regex <regex> configuration options to enable always using word-diffs in git diff Doron Behar
@ 2018-04-14 20:07 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-04-15 21:13 ` Junio C Hamano
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From: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason @ 2018-04-14 20:07 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Doron Behar; +Cc: git
On Sat, Apr 14 2018, Doron Behar wrote:
> I've just came across the wonderful command line option for `git diff`:
> `--word-diff`. It could be great to have a configuration option that
> will enable this feature by default when running `git diff`.
Do you know you can do:
git config --global alias.wdiff "diff --word-diff"
?
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2018-04-14 20:07 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
@ 2018-04-15 21:13 ` Junio C Hamano
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From: Junio C Hamano @ 2018-04-15 21:13 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason; +Cc: Doron Behar, git
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> writes:
> On Sat, Apr 14 2018, Doron Behar wrote:
>
>> I've just came across the wonderful command line option for `git diff`:
>> `--word-diff`. It could be great to have a configuration option that
>> will enable this feature by default when running `git diff`.
>
> Do you know you can do:
>
> git config --global alias.wdiff "diff --word-diff"
Correct, but it is a "you could instead do it this way" that is not
accompanied by a "you do not want to do what you said you want to
because.." answer. Having the latter is often helpful to learn why
the suggestion is actually not a mere "you could" but is a "you are
better off doing it this way".
Even though it is discouraged, people script using the Porcelain
"git diff" command, and once users of such a configuration variable
is used in Doron's fork of Git, those scripts will break for them.
Using alias like you showed won't have such a problem.
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