Subject: Re: [PATCH] diff: Support diff.color-words config option

From: Markus Heidelberg <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 18:42:23 +0100

Junio C Hamano, 20.01.2009:
> "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." <[email-masked]> writes:
> 
> > When diff is invoked with --color-words (w/o =regex), use the regular
> > expression the user has configured as diff.color-words.
> >
> > diff drivers configured via attributes take precedence over the
> > diff.color-words setting.  If the user wants to change them, they have
> > their own configuration variables.
> 
> This needs an entry in Documentation/config.txt
> 
> None of the existing configuration variables defined use hyphens in
> multi-word variable names.

Except for diff.suppress-blank-empty
Should it be converted or is it intention to reflect GNU diff's option?

Markus