On 2015-04-15 Wednesday at 18:41 +0200 Bram Moolenaar wrote: > > Roland Eggner wrote: > > [...] > > > @Bram > > ───── > > 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.
“very old systems” … now I understand your intention, thank you. > > 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? -- Roland Eggner -- -- You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
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