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bug#19099: Diff options with vc-git
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#19099: Diff options with vc-git |
Date: |
Tue, 18 Nov 2014 21:17:53 +0200 |
> From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
> Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2014 14:09:53 -0500
>
> IIUC there's basically no way to get this with git diff, I have to use
>
> difftool -x "diff -c"
>
> (which seems to parse its -x argument on whitespace, yuck).
>
> So, TLDR:
>
> I'd like an option to call difftool instead of diff in vc-git-diff, please.
> If it was consistent with eg vc-svn, this would happen by default when
> vc-git-diff-switches was nil.
You can make an alias as described here:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3129514/how-to-make-git-diff-create-a-context-format-diff
and then invoke that alias instead of "diff".