Re: Showing whitespace on minus lines of diff ouput

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
>> The colored diff output is quite helpful to show introductions of whitespace.
>>
>> However, if whitespace has been removed, it's impossible to see in the
>> diff output since whitespace is colorized on '+' lines, but not '-'
>> lines.
>>
>> I'm looking at diff.c, but wow. Can someone more familiar with this
>> file point me toward how I'd make a patch to colorize whitespace on
>> '-' lines as well?
>
> Totally uninterested.  "diff -R" would be enough, wouldn't it?

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..
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