Linus Torvalds <torva...@linux-foundation.org> writes: > On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 7:27 AM, Marc Branchaud <marcn...@xiplink.com> wrote: >> >> Could this also help with diff output, where the leading + or - mars the >> indentation in a similar way? > > I don't think that's a good idea at least by default, since then it > will break things like running diff in emacs capture mode. > > So even if you're in a terminal, you can't assume that you can munge > the output too much. > > Of course, if colorization is on, you might as well pretty-print the > diff by indenting things properly too, since the end result isn't > going to be used as a _diff_.
I agree that I will never use such an end result as a diff, but I may still be tempted to cut-and-paste individual lines after '^+' when resurrecting a WIP topic that does not rebase very well, so I agree with you that the output shouldn't be munged by default even though I think it is OK to have an option.. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
