Roland Eggner wrote:
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> @Bram
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> As you prefer context over unified diff format:
Only for the patches I send out. If someone sends me a patch any format
will do.
> • Are you aware of the possibility, that both git and mercurial can be
> configured to output _every_ diff output with an increased number of
The reason for context diffs is for very old systems, which are unlikely
to have git or mercurial. It's become less and less important, but it's
zero work to keep doing it this way.
> context lines, e.g. 10 lines instead of the usual 3?
> “git log -p -1 -U10”
> gitconfig: “[diff] \n context = 10”
> “hg log -p --limit 1 --config diff.unified=10“
> hgrc: “[diff] \n unified = 10“
> “git help diff” describes even more options to tune the amount of diff
> context.
> • Are you aware of the patchutils package and the filterdiff command?
> It can give you context diff format with git and mercurial everywhere:
> just use “PAGER=/usr/bin/less” and properly include
> “filterdiff -v --format=context” in /usr/bin/lesspipe.
> If you do not use already something equivalent, maybe using any of
> this tips or both you like git and mercurial a bit more?
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