From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Brown Subject: Re: [RFC] best way to show diff of commit Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2007 15:43:10 -0800 Message-ID: <20071125234310.GA26458@old.davidb.org> References: <20071125211831.GA21121@artemis.corp> <20071125212748.GB23820@fieldses.org> <20071125220902.GB21121@artemis.corp> <7vfxyuj70i.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Cc: Pierre Habouzit , "J. Bruce Fields" , Git ML To: Junio C Hamano X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Nov 26 00:44:10 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IwR8v-0001hH-3U for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Mon, 26 Nov 2007 00:44:05 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755458AbXKYXnS (ORCPT ); Sun, 25 Nov 2007 18:43:18 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756887AbXKYXnS (ORCPT ); Sun, 25 Nov 2007 18:43:18 -0500 Received: from mail.davidb.org ([66.93.32.219]:47593 "EHLO mail.davidb.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755458AbXKYXnQ (ORCPT ); Sun, 25 Nov 2007 18:43:16 -0500 Received: from davidb by mail.davidb.org with local (Exim 4.68 #1 (Debian)) id 1IwR82-0006u8-Ag; Sun, 25 Nov 2007 15:43:10 -0800 Mail-Followup-To: Junio C Hamano , Pierre Habouzit , "J. Bruce Fields" , Git ML Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <7vfxyuj70i.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Sun, Nov 25, 2007 at 02:27:09PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote: >Pierre Habouzit writes: > >> Hmm it doesn't because I would have to call git commit -v each time I >> commit and well I _like_ having the status better. And moreover I want >> the diff to go in a separated buffer too. > >I've never felt it a problem while editing the log message in Emacs. > >Don't enhanced vi implementations let you split the same buffer into >two allowing you to view different portions of it these days? Yes, certainly with vim, which is what most distributions seem to include as the enhanced vim. I have noticed that there seem to be fewer vim users that figure out these kinds of things than emacs users, though. Dave