Am 1/28/2011 1:19, schrieb Tilman Vogel: > Am 25.01.2011 01:25, schrieb Pat Thoyts: >> This seems ok but you don't say what it is for. Why do you want to be >> able to pass additional options to git diff? > > Sorry, forgot to copy the motivation from > <https://github.com/git/git/pull/8>: > > I want to be able to make diff ignore whitespace changes "-b". But maybe > someone else wants "-w" or what not, so I think a generic option field > is most versatile. What do you expect to happen, when a user writes any of the following in that edit box? --name-status -R --frotz origin master Don't you want to diagnose bogus input? Disable "Stage/Unstage hung/lines" (because they won't apply anymore)? Etc. I don't think this is a great improvement. At the least it is not thought through. -- Hannes -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html