Re: color.diff.whitespace unused on removed lines

2016-10-04 Thread Sandro Santilli
On Tue, Oct 04, 2016 at 11:29:55AM -0400, Jeff King wrote: > On Tue, Oct 04, 2016 at 10:14:29AM +0200, Sandro Santilli wrote: > > > The color.diff.whitespace configuration is not used on > > removed lines, but only on added lines. > > Right. The original purpose was t

Re: broken post-via-gmane link from https://git-scm.com/community

2016-10-04 Thread Sandro Santilli
On Tue, Oct 04, 2016 at 11:52:18AM +0300, Andrey Rybak wrote: > Hi, > > On 04.10.2016 11:11, Sandro Santilli wrote: > > The "post via gmane" link on https://git-scm.com/community points > > to an unexistent server 'post.gmane.org': > > http://post.gmane.

color.diff.whitespace unused on removed lines

2016-10-04 Thread Sandro Santilli
The color.diff.whitespace configuration is not used on removed lines, but only on added lines. As I'm removing trailing whitespaces all my diffs fail to give me any information about the real action being taken, due to this lack of support. As a workaround, I've found the -R switch for "git

broken post-via-gmane link from https://git-scm.com/community

2016-10-04 Thread Sandro Santilli
The "post via gmane" link on https://git-scm.com/community points to an unexistent server 'post.gmane.org': http://post.gmane.org/post.php?group=gmane.comp.version-control.git --strk; () Free GIS & Flash consultant/developer /\ https://strk.kbt.io/services.html

preventing evil merges

2013-05-30 Thread Sandro Santilli
Hey all, I've be burnt by what someone on IRC referred to as evil merges, that is loss of history after amending a merge commit: git merge anotherbranch git add something git commit --amend After the steps above the addition of something can't be found in the history anymore, but the file is