On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 01:48:54AM +0000, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > > While we are discussing about diff, there is one thing that has been > > bugging me occasionally, but the annoyance factor has not motivated me > > enough to look into it myself, because I do not use it often: > > --color-words. It appears that it shows lines that do not have any word > > differences in bold (whatever diff.color.meta is configured) and I think > > it should use plain color instead. > > > > Was this intentional, or just a simple plain bug? > > Plain bug. I even meant to implement your suggestion of having a variable > set of non-word characters, but never came around to work on it. Hmm. I happen to set my "meta" color to something a little less attention-grabbing (magenta), and I find the alternate coloring to be a nice visual indicator of "nothing happened on this line". I can see how bold would be very distracting, though. Perhaps there should be a color.diff.unimportant? -Peff - 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
