On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 05:59:08PM +0200, Thomas Rast wrote:

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> Use the newly added 'diff --word-diff=porcelain' to teach gitk a
> color-words mode, with two different modes analogous to the
> --word-diff=plain and --word-diff=color settings.  These are selected
> by a dropdown box.
> 
> As an extra twist, automatically enable this word-diff support when
> the user mentions a word-diff related option on the command line.
> These options were previously ignored because they would break diff
> parsing.
> 
> Both of these features are only enabled if we have a version of git
> that supports --word-diff=porcelain, tentatively set to 1.7.2.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>

Looks fine.  The only nit I can see is that a "--word-diffoobar"
option would get treated as "--word-diff=plain" rather than giving an
error or being passed as-is to git log.

When does this need to go in, i.e. when is the git patch likely to go
in?

Paul.
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