Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes: > We do have a few "display only" modes. You mentioned --color-words, but > --textconv is similar (and of course --ext-diff can generate whatever it > wants). I'm not sure how helpful that is, though, because humans end up > needing to look at "real" diffs that can be applied often enough (and as > you note, changing those would break them). Add "--irreversible-delete" to the set. We should perhaps find a migration path to eventually disable these "display only" things in format-patch [*1*], if we do not already do so. > This could be addressed at the viewing layer, though, which is what's > converting the tabstops to screen positions. For example, "less -x9,17" > adjusts the tab stops in the pager to account for the extra leading > character (and you can put it into $LESS or $GIT_PAGER to have it kick > in automatically). That's a cute one (and can be used not just on "git diff" output but on output from "diff" by other people). Thanks. [References] *1* https://lore.kernel.org/git/7vsj8dcdv6.fsf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
