Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] git-config support for diff.relative setting
From: Junio C Hamano <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 23:03:22
kelson@shysecurity.com writes:
By default, git-diff shows changes and pathnames relative to the repository root. Setting diff.relative to "true" shows pathnames relative to the current directory and excludes changes outside this directory.
The above does not tell any lie, but it is mostly a description of what "--relative" does. I think the main point of this change is that by configuring a variable "diff.relative" (and forget about it) you do not have to keep saying "--relative" from the command line, so that is how you should "sell" this change to others, I think.
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No signoff?
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Documentation/diff-config.txt | 5 +++++ diff.c | 8 ++++++++ t/t4045-diff-relative.sh | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++ 3 files changed, 34 insertions(+)diff --git a/Documentation/diff-config.txt b/Documentation/diff-config.txt index b001779..496e9b0 100644 --- a/Documentation/diff-config.txt +++ b/Documentation/diff-config.txt@@ -103,6 +103,11 @@ diff.orderfile:: one shell glob pattern per line. Can be overridden by the '-O' option to linkgit:git-diff[1].
Whitespace damaged patch? HTs are all gone. Please practice first by sending your patches to yourself, and then try to "git am" them by saving the e-mail messages you received from yourself. "git grep -i thunder Documentation" seem to tell me that there are hints on using Thunderbird in SubmittingPatches and format-patch documentation. I might have said this already, but I think this change, without support for "--no-relative", would be an incomplete one that can break the end-user experience, and it would be better to swap the order of the patches. Thanks.