Alex Ott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Re > >>>>>> "SW" == Samuel Wales writes: > SW> Do you know whether any of the git modes allow you to preprocess the > SW> files that get diffed or ediffed? > > in magit you can see diff for separate files > > SW> For example, let's say that you want to ignore all line moves. In > SW> that case, you might run both files (e.g. an old version and the > SW> current version) through "sort -u". > > SW> Then the diff will look funny if you made a lot of changes, but if you > SW> only moved lines, it would show up as a zero diff, which is exactly > SW> what you want if you don't care about line moves. If you made just a > SW> few changes and a lot of line moves, those changes would show up. A > SW> more sophisticated algorithm could keep the changed lines in place. > > SW> Likewise, you could preprocess org files to make diffs cleaner by > SW> eliminating all level changes, etc. > > SW> I have done this in the shell for a long time and found it useful; it > SW> would be nice in a git mode, if any support that. > > SW> Of course, perhaps it could be done in ediff, somehow. > > SW> I wonder if dvc will win because it has backends. > > You can look through modes, described in my article at > http://xtalk.msk.su/~ott/en/writings/emacs-vcs/EmacsGit.html > > In DVC, as i remember, support for Git is still very basic
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