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Wow, why isn’t this the default?!

• _ikke_ 3y ago
  git diff by default outputs valid patch files that you can feed to patch out git apply. --word-diff does not Kernel development involves working with patches a lot, so it made sense to default to that, and --word-diff was added later anyway.
  • yardstick 3y ago
    Ah, makes sense, thanks for the explanation. I’ll have to create an alias for my use!