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From: "Dirk Süsserott" <newsletter@dirk.my1.cc>
To: Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: gitk: how to apply '--color-words' to the diff command
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 20:18:53 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <47DEC41D.9050409@dirk.my1.cc> (raw)

Hello,

a few days ago I found a patch for gitk that adds a checkbox 'Ignore 
space change' to the gitk GUI and -- when clicked -- adds the '-w' 
switch to the diff command. I found that a very convenient way to see 
'what has really changed'. The patch was contributed by Steffen Prohaska 
and has sha1 b9b86007e27d9a06d58feab618a5be1d491ed13e in the
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git repository.

Inspired by this, I thought a '--color-words' switch would be even more
convenient. I took the patch as a template and kinda replaced all
occurences of '-w' with '--color-words' (do not take this literally).

Unfortunately gitk then shows the diffs not colorized but with those 
ugly escape sequences instead. I'm not a Python person and just able to 
'copy and waste', but probably some of you had the same idea and got it 
right.

Dirk

             reply	other threads:[~2008-03-17 19:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-03-17 19:18 Dirk Süsserott [this message]
2008-03-18 20:55 ` gitk: how to apply '--color-words' to the diff command Dirk Süsserott
2008-03-18 20:58 ` Dirk Süsserott

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