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From: Alban Gruin <alban.gruin@gmail.com>
To: Ulrich Windl <Ulrich.Windl@rz.uni-regensburg.de>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: java diffs show no method context
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2018 17:05:34 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <aae8d748-101d-1eb2-f8e8-9da2e53e2388@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5AE07A3A020000A10002B5C5@gwsmtp1.uni-regensburg.de>

Le 25/04/2018 à 14:53, Ulrich Windl a écrit :
> Hi!
> 
> This is for git 2.13.6, and it may be an FAQ or frequent feature request. Anyway:
> I'm new to Java, and writing my first project using Git, I found that "git diff" only reports the class in the diff context, but not the method (as seen for C, for example).
> I'd wish to have the method where the diff is located.

Hi,

to achieve this behaviour, you have to create a file named
".gitattributes" at the root of your project, containing this line:

*.java diff=java

.gitattributes allows you to configure other things, as described in the
documentation[1].

I hope it helps.

[1] https://www.git-scm.com/docs/gitattributes

Cheers,
Alban

  reply	other threads:[~2018-04-25 15:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-04-25 12:53 java diffs show no method context Ulrich Windl
2018-04-25 15:05 ` Alban Gruin [this message]
2018-04-26  6:30   ` Antw: " Ulrich Windl
2018-04-26  7:43     ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason

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