color-words: take an optional regular expression describing words
In some applications, words are not delimited by white space. To
allow for that, you can specify a regular expression describing
what makes a word with
git diff --color-words='[A-Za-z0-9]+'
Note that words cannot contain newline characters.
As suggested by Thomas Rast, the words are the exact matches of the
regular expression.
Note that a regular expression beginning with a '^' will match only
a word at the beginning of the hunk, not a word at the beginning of
a line, and is probably not what you want.
This commit contains a quoting fix by Thomas Rast.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>