From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michael J Gruber Subject: Re: git diff: add option for omitting the contents of deletes Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2011 15:41:21 +0100 Message-ID: <4D6A6291.8050206@drmicha.warpmail.net> References: <7vk4gm7dz3.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: =?UTF-8?B?TWFydCBTw7VtZXJtYWE=?= , git@vger.kernel.org To: Junio C Hamano X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun Feb 27 15:40:18 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PthnF-0002ne-Jf for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Sun, 27 Feb 2011 15:40:17 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751984Ab1B0OkL convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Sun, 27 Feb 2011 09:40:11 -0500 Received: from out1.smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.25]:58994 "EHLO out1.smtp.messagingengine.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751795Ab1B0OkL (ORCPT ); Sun, 27 Feb 2011 09:40:11 -0500 Received: from compute1.internal (compute1.nyi.mail.srv.osa [10.202.2.41]) by gateway1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D8F320A56; Sun, 27 Feb 2011 09:40:10 -0500 (EST) Received: from frontend1.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.160]) by compute1.internal (MEProxy); Sun, 27 Feb 2011 09:40:10 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=messagingengine.com; h=message-id:date:from:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; s=smtpout; bh=beeP5sNDieBbtyHW3YvJYfDJQHY=; b=jkgrOrHPdP82YzLWkDwI6GSmfP3XIv+3MrHozUBqQQ/k/8HbTtPvE1F8SSHrLUX4hIncBvGNt9X8ZAbkEMObqqNq1V6hcAk6uEWdidYAsoUttcA/HKnKuN12SO5X7xiP3O0JHQOeWgelRQhPNNwvP+vMyMz4eZSr0UPSJptbvs0= X-Sasl-enc: TFbd7jnHTxbU3TbkEBb9xcb5RyFOa1o7OI7Mm65lVdOj 1298817610 Received: from localhost.localdomain (p5485925B.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [84.133.146.91]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id DC824401736; Sun, 27 Feb 2011 09:40:09 -0500 (EST) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101209 Fedora/3.1.7-0.35.b3pre.fc14 Lightning/1.0b3pre Thunderbird/3.1.7 In-Reply-To: <7vk4gm7dz3.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Junio C Hamano venit, vidit, dixit 26.02.2011 21:11: > Mart S=C3=B5mermaa writes: >=20 >> Paging through deletes adds a cognitive burden when reviewing code. >=20 > Wasn't the ability to say '/^diff --git ' in your pager invented for > exactly for that? Wasn't the pager invented for sifting through output which has to be several pages, but not not for that which could be more concise? ;) In fact, -D would be quite analogous to -M and -C in that respect. Michael