Re: -p diff output and the 'Index:' line

[Petr Baudis <pasky@ucw.cz>]

Dear diary, on Mon, May 30, 2005 at 09:42:26AM CEST, I got a letter
where Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> told me that...
> >>>>> "PB" == Petr Baudis <pasky@ucw.cz> writes:
> 
> PB> It's just something along the lines of "Me Og. Og sees /^+/. Og makes
> PB> the line green." written in gawk (actually I'm not sure if pure awk
> PB> wouldn't do, but I actually don't know the language), so I don't think
> PB> the external diff thing would've helped me with that in any way.
> 
> Ah, I see.  I thought you were talking about the Index: and
> separator lines.  Colorizing diff/patch part, you need to parse
> the diff output with sed/awk/perl and annotate it anyway, and it
> does not matter if you annotate within GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF or
> outside.  I agree with you that using GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF
> mechanism would not help you here.

Well, I want to finally converge with the diff format to what git uses.
So I'm just colorizing the /^diff --git/ line with a unusually bright
color, which will hopefully make up for the Index: and separator lines.

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