On 09.01.25 02:45, Melanie Plageman wrote:
On Wed, Jan 8, 2025 at 8:39 AM Peter Eisentraut <pe...@eisentraut.org> wrote:

On 07.01.25 18:31, Melanie Plageman wrote:

Oh, one thing I forgot to say. Though I increased the indentation of
some of the subsections that I moved, I didn't rewrap the lines
because they were already not wrapped to 78. I can do this, but I
can't tell from the existing docs what text width the paragraphs of
text are supposed to be wrapped to.

For a patch that moves things around like this, I would leave everything
as is and not rewrap.  That makes it easier to follow what's going on
with "git diff -w", "git show -w" etc.

In .dir-locals.el, there is this configuration for Emacs:

   (nxml-mode . ((fill-column . 78)
                 (indent-tabs-mode . nil)))

So that's one data point about what the line length should be.

Well, in this case, the diff won't look different with git show/diff
-w because moving them to another part of the file is more than a
whitespace change.

Correct.  The right option is

    git diff --color-moved

This can also be put into .gitconfig.



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