Peff, I'm replying to http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/108158 On Tue, 3 Feb 2009, Jeff King wrote: > All in all, this was a lot more complicated than I was expecting. Why isn't > the behavior of "diff.primer" simply "pretend as if the options in diff.primer > were prepended to the command line"? That is easy to explain, and easy to > implement (the only trick is that you have to do an extra pass to find > --[no-]primer). Is there some drawback to such a simple scheme that I am > missing? In order to answer your questions as convincingly as possible, I wrote up a one-page PDF document, downloadable here: http://preview.tinyurl.com/c769dd You will see I clarified my arguments, and I found very compelling reasons for my design. Also, BTW, v3 supports all diff options under the sun, instead of a limited subset. That addresses your primary complaint WRT functionality. Please take a look at the PDF and I hope you agree. -- Keith -- 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
