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From: Ted Pavlic <ted@tedpavlic.com>
To: Keith Cascio <keith@CS.UCLA.EDU>
Cc: Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi>, git <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: diff settings
Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2009 16:02:10 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <497CD352.2060402@tedpavlic.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.GSO.2.00.0901241159050.23073@kiwi.cs.ucla.edu>

>>      git config --global alias.dff "diff -w"
>>
>> Then "git dff" is your new "git diff -w". :-)
>
> That feature is gonna come in handy.  It doesn't 100% fulfill my needs here but
> I like it!  Thanks, I did not know about alias.*

Mercurial has a "defaults.*" that does exactly what you want. That is, 
you can say

[defaults]
diff = -w

and "hg diff" will automatically do "hg diff -w". Such a feature might 
be a nice addition to git.

--Ted


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  reply	other threads:[~2009-01-25 21:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-01-24 17:38 diff settings Keith Cascio
2009-01-24 19:22 ` Jeff King
2009-01-24 19:33 ` Teemu Likonen
2009-01-24 20:01   ` Keith Cascio
2009-01-25 21:02     ` Ted Pavlic [this message]
2009-01-25 21:11       ` Keith Cascio
2009-01-26  2:06         ` Ted Pavlic
2009-01-29 16:26           ` Ted Pavlic
2009-01-29 16:33             ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-01-29 18:46               ` Keith Cascio
2009-01-29 21:07                 ` Nanako Shiraishi
     [not found]           ` <alpine.GSO.2.00.0901310750470.5437@kiwi.cs.ucla.edu>
2009-01-31 19:47             ` Ted Pavlic
2009-01-31 23:10               ` Keith Cascio

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