From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ted Pavlic Subject: Re: diff settings Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2009 16:02:10 -0500 Message-ID: <497CD352.2060402@tedpavlic.com> References: <87ocxwv6qg.fsf@iki.fi> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Teemu Likonen , git To: Keith Cascio X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun Jan 25 22:03:57 2009 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 1LRC8t-0000UV-CS for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Sun, 25 Jan 2009 22:03:43 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751408AbZAYVCR (ORCPT ); Sun, 25 Jan 2009 16:02:17 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751364AbZAYVCQ (ORCPT ); Sun, 25 Jan 2009 16:02:16 -0500 Received: from gallifrey.ece.ohio-state.edu ([164.107.167.66]:55715 "EHLO gallifrey.ece.ohio-state.edu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751324AbZAYVCP (ORCPT ); Sun, 25 Jan 2009 16:02:15 -0500 Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by gallifrey.ece.ohio-state.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C78280D8035; Sun, 25 Jan 2009 15:56:11 -0500 (EST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gallifrey.ece.ohio-state.edu Received: from gallifrey.ece.ohio-state.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (gallifrey.ece.ohio-state.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id fBFPkzIYjJqP; Sun, 25 Jan 2009 15:56:11 -0500 (EST) Received: from TedBook.local (cpe-76-181-62-78.columbus.res.rr.com [76.181.62.78]) by gallifrey.ece.ohio-state.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4584380D8011; Sun, 25 Jan 2009 15:56:11 -0500 (EST) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051201 Thunderbird/1.5 Mnenhy/0.7.3.0 In-Reply-To: Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: >> 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 -- Ted Pavlic Please visit my ALS association page: http://web.alsa.org/goto/tedpavlic My family appreciates your support in the fight to defeat ALS.