Re: [PATCH v2] commit, status: #comment diff output in verbose mode

[Piotr Krukowiecki <piotr.krukowiecki@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 2:23 AM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 04:45:14PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
>> Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
>>
>> > One reason to keep the existing behavior is that editors will tend to
>> > syntax-highlight the diff portion without much extra effort (in vim, at
>> > least, the syntax highlighting just includes the diff syntax
>> > highlighting for that section).
>>
>> Hmm, thanks for pointing it out; it indeed is a valid concern.
>>
>> Although I usually strongly resist changes in order to keep the user
>> experience stable, I didn't think about this one, as I don't let the
>> editor syntax highlight anything.

/me too - I find syntax highlighting a nice feature and would prefer it to
stay as it is over using #commented out diff


> I like the proposal for:
>
>  # Lines below this one will be removed.
>  diff --git ...
>
> which seems to have the best of both worlds, robust and easy for editors
> to recognize as a diff. For that matter, we could also do "# Lines below
> this one..." for _all_ of the git-status template, but I don't think
> it's necessary. Those lines are already clearly marked with a delimiter,
> and I don't think anybody is complaining about them

The advantage of using such line is that it's more unique - IMO it's less likely
someone writes a commit message with "# Lines below ..." etc then with
"diff --git".

It also makes possible to remove this line and thus include git diff output in
commit message.

The downside is probably the need to support i18n for "# Lines below ..."

Less magic formats (or formats less magic) is better IMO.

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Piotr Krukowiecki