I figured out the problem. It was that I had accidently also changed the local gitconfig in the repo that I was in, so the global gitconfig line was not having any effect.
On Mon, Jul 1, 2019, 5:45 PM Philip Oakley <philipoak...@iee.org> wrote: > If I read the config page correctly, there are two things to be set > (just searched through the 10 occurrences of 'highlight' > > diff.wsErrorHighlight > > (says 'all' is valid) > > color.diff.<slot> > > (I think you want whitespace slot) > > says you can set the various colours. Not sure about what the default > colours would be. > > Beyond that, not sure. but check for any residual white space at the end > of lines in the config file.(s) ;-) ! > > Philip > > On 26/06/2019 20:20, Elemental wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Changing the line so that there is no trailing comment did not fix the > > problem. > > # Shows removed whitespace in diffs > > wsErrorHighlight = all > > > > > > > > On Wednesday, June 26, 2019 at 5:48:00 AM UTC-4, Philip Oakley wrote: > > > > While blank lines are acceptable, as are comment lines that start > > with > > the comment character, IIRC there are no trailing comments allowed > > for > > parameter values. > > The parameter values can contain arbitrary characters (except /n > > and /0, > > and likely /r on Windows etc) > > Philip > > > > On 26/06/2019 00:49, Elemental wrote: > > > > > > If I do > > > git config diff.wsErrorHighlight all > > > > > > (from > > > > > > https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5257553/coloring-white-space-in-git-diffs-output > > < > https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5257553/coloring-white-space-in-git-diffs-output > >.) > > > > > , then my `git diff` shows whitespace highlighted in red. > > > But, for some reason, if I modify my ~/.gitconfig file, to be: > > > > > > [diff] > > > # Automatically detect renames/moves of files in git diffs > > > # Shows actual changes between files > > > renames =true > > > > > > > > > wsErrorHighlight =all # Shows removed whitespace in diffs > > > > > > > > > then doing a `git diff` doesn't show the whitespace highlighted > > in red. > > > > > > > > > > > > Shouldn't these two ways produce the same output? > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > > > Groups "Git for human beings" group. > > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from > > it, send > > > an email to git-...@googlegroups.com <javascript:> > > > <mailto:git-...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>>. > > > To view this discussion on the web visit > > > > > > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/git-users/9ea37888-db7c-4355-b0c2-802ab8179174%40googlegroups.com > > < > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/git-users/9ea37888-db7c-4355-b0c2-802ab8179174%40googlegroups.com > > > > > > > > > < > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/git-users/9ea37888-db7c-4355-b0c2-802ab8179174%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer > > < > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/git-users/9ea37888-db7c-4355-b0c2-802ab8179174%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer > >>. > > > > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout > > <https://groups.google.com/d/optout>. > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > > Groups "Git for human beings" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > > an email to git-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > > <mailto:git-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com>. > > To view this discussion on the web visit > > > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/git-users/e4637712-27e5-4799-9016-cc749b5b8656%40googlegroups.com > > < > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/git-users/e4637712-27e5-4799-9016-cc749b5b8656%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer > >. > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Git for human beings" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to git-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/git-users/CAN-Oo-ctDYktbZ%2BFgvvkkqsQ9y-6Y%3D-cRqC6pm5i2oZ2_dU%3DQQ%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
