Mercurial has a "defaults.*" that does exactly what you want. That is, you can
[defaults]
diff = -w
and "hg diff" will automatically do "hg diff -w". Such a feature might be a
nice addition to git.
Thank you, that is very interesting. I just submitted a patch this morning that
does exactly what you describe, but I called it "primer" instead of "defaults"
because it seemed more explicit. Check it out.
I saw that. However, in Mercurial's case, the [defaults] section applies
to all commands (including new ones introduced by extensions). That is,
it looks like your patch adds a diff.primer, but Mercurial would add a
primer.* that allows you to have a primer.diff, primer.commit, etc.
For example, wouldn't it be nice to have something like...
[defaults]
diff = -w
commit = -a
etc.? Right now the only way you can do that is with aliases (e.g., I
have an alias from "ci" to "commit -a").
This task is pretty easy in Mercurial because Mercurial porcelains are
implemented as modules that are all executed through the central "hg"
command. This isn't the case with git.
(on a somewhat unrelated note, Mercurial does have a [diff] section that
allows for, say, forcing the use of git diff and other things)
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