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authorJeff Muizelaar <jmuizelaar@mozilla.com>2012-09-27 15:12:52 -0400
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2012-09-30 20:16:01 -0700
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diff: diff.context configuration gives default to -U
Introduce a configuration variable diff.context that tells Porcelain commands to use a non-default number of context lines instead of 3 (the default). With this variable, users do not have to keep repeating "git log -U8" from the command line; instead, it becomes sufficient to say "git config diff.context 8" just once. Signed-off-by: Jeff Muizelaar <jmuizelaar@mozilla.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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@@ -56,6 +56,10 @@ diff.statGraphWidth::
Limit the width of the graph part in --stat output. If set, applies
to all commands generating --stat output except format-patch.
+diff.context::
+ Generate diffs with <n> lines of context instead of the default of
+ 3. This value is overridden by the -U option.
+
diff.external::
If this config variable is set, diff generation is not
performed using the internal diff machinery, but using the