Re: -p diff output and the 'Index:' line

On Sun, May 29, 2005 3:41 am, Junio C Hamano said:

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"PB" == Petr Baudis [off-list ref] writes:

PB>   What do you think? Would you hate it to show up in the diffs, or are
PB> you ok with it?

I cannot tell if you are asking about cg-diff or changing the
built-in diff-* output.  The Subject: line suggests you are
talking about the latter, but if that is the case I have to
admit that I am not that sympathetic to Index: nor separator.

Like Linus, I do "/^diff --git .*" in my less sessions, which
gives a very nice highlighted separator line without wasting a
single line on the terminal.  If any of the readers on the list
didn't know about this trick (especially the trailing .* part),
please try it.  I'm certain everybody would love it.

It's good to know you can wrap this into a shell script too, which saves
you having to type the search string in "less" each time... something
like:

git-diff-tree "$@" | git-diff-helper | less -p "^diff --git .*"

Sean