From: Peter Baumann <waste.manager@gmx.de>
To: Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>, Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>,
git@vger.kernel.org, Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [OT] perhaps we want to support copied-context diff output
Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2007 12:10:29 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071208111029.GB2844@xp.machine.xx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071208085302.GA13432@glandium.org>
On Sat, Dec 08, 2007 at 09:53:02AM +0100, Mike Hommey wrote:
> > Perhaps we may want to add "diff -c" (copied context) output format as
> > an option, which may be easier to read.
>
> Or maybe use the patience diff.
>
[... skip testcase showing a much nicer diff for human consumption ...]
AFAIR bzr uses the patience diff already. I don't actually use bzr
(obviously, because git is so much better:-) but it produces much nicer
diffs than git if you have many small changes nearby.
-Peter
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-12-08 11:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-12-08 5:00 [PATCH 1/2] pack-objects: reverse the delta search sort list Nicolas Pitre
2007-12-08 8:18 ` [OT] perhaps we want to support copied-context diff output Junio C Hamano
2007-12-08 8:53 ` Mike Hommey
2007-12-08 11:10 ` Peter Baumann [this message]
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