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From: Piotr Krukowiecki <piotr.krukowiecki@gmail.com>
To: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Cc: Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: A better git diff --word-diff (--word-diff-regex) ?
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2012 18:06:49 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAA01Cso5z9oT_MyFmGCJ0aV7EXb11k8zK4bJ9XBBLT3Yx_zpdw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ipi0vs0q.fsf@thomas.inf.ethz.ch>

On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 10:50 AM, Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch> wrote:
> Piotr Krukowiecki <piotr.krukowiecki@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> is there a way to configure --word-diff to be a more programming
>> language friendly? For example if I add one parameter to a function
>> declaration, I'd like to see only the addition of the parameter as the
>> change. But currently it shows much more.
>
> Umm, what's wrong with
>
>  echo '*.cpp diff=cpp' >>.git/info/attributes
>
> Ok, the funcname patterns aren't so good, but the word regex is designed
> to "tokenize" as far as that is feasible.

Thanks, that's very good! I've missed it reading the git-diff man page.

-- 
Piotr Krukowiecki

  reply	other threads:[~2012-03-19 17:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-03-19  9:44 A better git diff --word-diff (--word-diff-regex) ? Piotr Krukowiecki
2012-03-19  9:47 ` Matthieu Moy
2012-03-19 16:54   ` Piotr Krukowiecki
2012-03-19  9:50 ` Thomas Rast
2012-03-19 17:06   ` Piotr Krukowiecki [this message]
2012-03-19  9:58 ` Johannes Sixt
2012-03-19 15:10 ` Jeff King

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