Re: [PATCH 0/5] diff --ignore-case

Johannes Sixt [off-list ref] writes:

Am 20.02.2012 03:16, schrieb Junio C Hamano:

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This teaches our "diff" machinery to optionally consider lines that are
different only in upper/lower-cases to be equivalent.

When would I want to use --ignore-case?

I wouldn't myself; it was just I saw somebody asked if -G can be used to
do case insensitive and then I realized we do not even support such in the
diff machinery to begin with, but now this opens a way to do so by copying
the xdl options when the pickaxe-grep codepath runs a subdiff.

You can update the hash and recmatch to be locale-aware, which would be an
internal update to xdiff/ directory that is independent of the rest of the
series, and/or the change to plug the machinery to -G.