Re: [PATCH] cleanup hashindex for pg_migrator hashindex compat mode (for 8.4)

On 05/25/2009 07:53 PM, Andres Freund wrote:
> On 05/25/2009 07:31 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
>> David Fetter<david@fetter.org> writes:
>>> On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 12:24:05PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>>>> If you'd like to accomplish something *useful* about this, how about
>>>> pestering git upstream to support diff -c output format?
>>
>>> It looks like this is doable with a suitable git configuration file
>>> such as $HOME/.gitconfig or (finer grain) a .git/config for the
>>> repository :)
>>
>> Cool, let's see one.
>>
>> If we were to put it into a repository config file, that would more or
>> less have the effect of enforcing a project style for diffs, no?
> Yes and no.
>
> You can define that a subset (or all) files use a specific "diff driver"
> in the repository - unfortunately the definition of that driver has to
> be done locally. Defining it currently involves installing a wrapper
> like the one on http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Talk:Working_with_Git
> and doing
Ugh, hit the wrong key:
and executing
`git config --global diff.context.command "git-external-diff"`

Andres