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| author | Anders Melchiorsen <mail@cup.kalibalik.dk> | 2008-07-27 13:12:15 +0200 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2008-08-01 22:45:27 -0700 |
| commit | bbff8aaaf2f2342b97882f93c9e30050918621c0 (patch) | |
| tree | 34907f6a6e00380262827edb5539c91b32cf3ceb /Documentation/config.txt | |
| parent | b2a56276512885f0c7d159543395769168c9f599 (diff) | |
| download | git-bbff8aaaf2f2342b97882f93c9e30050918621c0.tar.gz git-bbff8aaaf2f2342b97882f93c9e30050918621c0.tar.xz | |
Documentation: fix diff.external example
The diff.external examples pass a flag to gnu-diff, but GNU diff
does not follow the GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF interface.
Signed-off-by: Anders Melchiorsen <mail@cup.kalibalik.dk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/config.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/config.txt | 10 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt index 5331b450e..d4ca8b271 100644 --- a/Documentation/config.txt +++ b/Documentation/config.txt @@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ Example # Our diff algorithm [diff] - external = "/usr/local/bin/gnu-diff -u" + external = /usr/local/bin/diff-wrapper renames = true [branch "devel"] @@ -554,9 +554,11 @@ diff.autorefreshindex:: diff.external:: If this config variable is set, diff generation is not performed using the internal diff machinery, but using the - given command. Note: if you want to use an external diff - program only on a subset of your files, you might want to - use linkgit:gitattributes[5] instead. + given command. Can be overridden with the `GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF' + environment variable. The command is called with parameters + as described under "git Diffs" in linkgit:git[1]. Note: if + you want to use an external diff program only on a subset of + your files, you might want to use linkgit:gitattributes[5] instead. diff.renameLimit:: The number of files to consider when performing the copy/rename |