Hi Ævar
On 07/02/2023 17:27, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
On Tue, Feb 07 2023, Phillip Wood wrote:
This is slightly off topic but one thing I'd really like is a way to
tell diff use automatically use --diff-words on some files
(e.g. Documentation/*)
Unlike changing the algorithm, -U options, diff.orderFile etc. doing
that would give you a diff that can't be applied with "git apply" or
other tools that expect a valid unified diff.
That's a good point, we'd probably would want to guard it by checking if
the output is going to a tty.
So I can imagine that it would be neat in some contexts, but such a
change would have much wider implications than options that tweak how a
valid unified diff looks, or is generated.
We'd need some way to mark a diff as "for ad-hoc viewing only".
But as it sounds like you want this for git.git the
Documentation/doc-diff script is much better than anything word-diff
could spew out, as it diffs the resulting generated docs.
It's true that I should look at the doc-diff script for git, but it is a
wider wish for text files in other projects as well.
Best Wishes
Phillip
I wonder (but haven't tried) whether you can't "diff" that using the
same method that can be used to diff binary files using a custom driver.
Hrm, except that in that case (with includes etc) there isn't really a
1=1 mapping between files within Documentation/ and generated docs (due
to includes etc.). But I suppose it could be used only for those files
that 1=1 correspond to the generated manpages.
