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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
Cc: 19099@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#19099: Diff options with vc-git
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2014 21:17:53 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83389g9v32.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <mjoas4mike.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org>

> From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
> Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2014 14:09:53 -0500
> 
> IIUC there's basically no way to get this with git diff, I have to use
>   
>    difftool -x "diff -c"
> 
> (which seems to parse its -x argument on whitespace, yuck).
> 
> So, TLDR:
> 
> I'd like an option to call difftool instead of diff in vc-git-diff, please.
> If it was consistent with eg vc-svn, this would happen by default when
> vc-git-diff-switches was nil.

You can make an alias as described here:

  http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3129514/how-to-make-git-diff-create-a-context-format-diff

and then invoke that alias instead of "diff".





  reply	other threads:[~2014-11-18 19:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-11-18 19:09 bug#19099: Diff options with vc-git Glenn Morris
2014-11-18 19:17 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2014-11-18 19:27   ` Glenn Morris
2014-11-18 19:57     ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-11-18 20:01       ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-11-19  3:03 ` bug#19099: [PATCH] vc-git: Support `diff-switches' Rüdiger Sonderfeld
2014-11-19  4:36   ` Glenn Morris
2014-11-19 11:13     ` Rüdiger Sonderfeld
2014-11-19 18:30       ` Glenn Morris
2014-11-19 19:05         ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-11-19 19:44           ` Glenn Morris

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