From: Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: git <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Showing whitespace on minus lines of diff ouput
Date: Fri, 5 Feb 2010 01:17:06 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <76718491002042217g42e85a70r195cf75e0892dc54@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vr5p0kyp0.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 1:02 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> Actually the reason I don't like the idea to highlight corrected errors
> was not just because "'diff -R' is enough".
>
> The coloring of whitespace errors are like compiler warnings, at least to
> me, and giving similar highlighting to corrected ones defeats the purpose
> by making the output more distracting..
That makes perfect sense. I didn't think it through very well. :-)
j.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-02-05 10:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-02-05 1:47 Showing whitespace on minus lines of diff ouput Jay Soffian
2010-02-05 2:08 ` Jay Soffian
2010-02-05 2:54 ` Jay Soffian
2010-02-05 3:03 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-02-05 3:28 ` Jay Soffian
2010-02-05 6:02 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-02-05 6:17 ` Jay Soffian [this message]
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