Some users like the patience diff more than the bare diff. However, specifying the '--patience' argument every time diff is to be used is impractical. Moreover, creating an alias doesn't play with other tools nice, e.g. git-show; Therefore we need a configuration variable to turn this on/off across whole git tools. --- Please keep me CC'ed as I am not signed into list. Documentation/diff-config.txt | 3 +++ diff.c | 9 +++++++++ 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/diff-config.txt b/Documentation/diff-config.txt index 1aed79e..b72b2fd 100644 --- a/Documentation/diff-config.txt +++ b/Documentation/diff-config.txt @@ -86,6 +86,9 @@ diff.mnemonicprefix:: diff.noprefix:: If set, 'git diff' does not show any source or destination prefix. +diff.patience: + If set, 'git diff' will use patience algorithm. + diff.renameLimit:: The number of files to consider when performing the copy/rename detection; equivalent to the 'git diff' option '-l'. diff --git a/diff.c b/diff.c index a1c06b5..8940d00 100644 --- a/diff.c +++ b/diff.c @@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ static int diff_mnemonic_prefix; static int diff_no_prefix; static int diff_dirstat_permille_default = 30; static struct diff_options default_diff_options; +static int diff_patience = 0; static char diff_colors[][COLOR_MAXLEN] = { GIT_COLOR_RESET, @@ -212,6 +213,11 @@ int git_diff_basic_config(const char *var, const char *value, void *cb) if (!prefixcmp(var, "submodule.")) return parse_submodule_config_option(var, value); + if (!strcmp(var, "diff.patience")) { + diff_patience = git_config_bool(var, value); + return 0; + } + return git_default_config(var, value, cb); } @@ -3202,6 +3208,9 @@ int diff_setup_done(struct diff_options *options) DIFF_OPT_SET(options, EXIT_WITH_STATUS); } + if (diff_patience) + DIFF_XDL_SET(options, PATIENCE_DIFF); + return 0; } -- 1.7.3.4 -- 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