Re: git diff --patience

Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
To: Kevin Grittner <Kevin.Grittner@wicourts.gov>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2010-09-29T10:31:54Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On ons, 2010-09-15 at 12:58 -0500, Kevin Grittner wrote:
> I just discovered the --patience flag on the git diff command, and
> I'd like to suggest that we encourage people to use it when possible
> for building patches.  I just looked at output with and without it
> (and for good measure, before and after filterdiff --format=context
> for both), and the results were much better with this switch.

I have tried this switch various times now and haven't seen any
difference at all in the output.  Do you have an existing commit where
you see a difference so I can try it and see if there is some other
problem that my local configuration has?