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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: timothee.cour2@gmail.com
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, sbeller@google.com
Subject: Re: how to ignore whitespace changes with --color-moved (git diff move detection)?
Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2018 01:51:47 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180202065146.GA16533@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANri+EwfsgS-s0TeeX0E6XoCnmCeq=CB0UDQ9=gjSXbe8C_5GQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Feb 01, 2018 at 06:13:52PM -0800, Timothee Cour wrote:

> this PR from october 2017 was discussing a patch that'd introduce
> `--color-moved-[no-]ignore-space-change`
> https://public-inbox.org/git/20171025224620.27657-3-sbeller@google.com/
> 
> however not sure what happened since then as I can't find in `git help
> diff` options even after `brew install --HEAD git`
> 
> it's a really useful feature as it's a common use case (ppl move
> blocks and reformat in same PR)

I think you can still do "--color-moved -w" to ignore whitespace. It's
just that the defaults did not end up getting flipped.

-Peff

  reply	other threads:[~2018-02-02  6:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-02-02  2:13 how to ignore whitespace changes with --color-moved (git diff move detection)? Timothee Cour
2018-02-02  6:51 ` Jeff King [this message]
2018-02-02 18:23 ` Stefan Beller

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