From: Alex Ott <alexott@gmail.com>
To: Samuel Wales <samologist@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org, Richard Riley <rileyrgdev@googlemail.com>,
Linh Dang <linhd@nortel.com>
Subject: Re: Re: Git recommendations
Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2008 15:25:57 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r64sotu2.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20524da70811301829h76b19f67k801802105a36d00f@mail.gmail.com> (Samuel Wales's message of "Sun, 30 Nov 2008 19:29:47 -0700")
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
--
With best wishes, Alex Ott, MBA
http://alexott.blogspot.com/ http://xtalk.msk.su/~ott/
http://alexott-ru.blogspot.com/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-12-01 14:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-27 14:44 Git recommendations Richard Riley
2008-10-27 17:53 ` Ross Patterson
2008-10-27 18:22 ` Richard Riley
2008-10-27 18:31 ` Ross Patterson
2008-10-27 18:47 ` Richard Riley
2008-10-27 20:51 ` Mykola Nikishov
2008-10-28 18:40 ` Ross Patterson
2008-11-24 19:44 ` Linh Dang
2008-11-24 21:10 ` Richard Riley
2008-12-01 2:29 ` Samuel Wales
2008-12-01 14:25 ` Alex Ott [this message]
2008-12-01 15:56 ` Richard Riley
2008-12-07 22:15 ` Samuel Wales
2008-12-08 12:36 ` Tim O'Callaghan
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