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authorDavid Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>2016-10-07 16:58:05 -0700
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2016-10-11 10:04:27 -0700
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mergetool: honor diff.orderFile
Teach mergetool to get the list of files to edit via `diff` so that we gain support for diff.orderFile. Suggested-by: Luis Gutierrez <luisgutz@gmail.com> Helped-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org> Signed-off-by: David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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diff --git a/Documentation/git-mergetool.txt b/Documentation/git-mergetool.txt
index e846c2ed7..c4c1a9bde 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-mergetool.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-mergetool.txt
@@ -79,6 +79,11 @@ success of the resolution after the custom tool has exited.
Prompt before each invocation of the merge resolution program
to give the user a chance to skip the path.
+DIFF ORDER FILES
+----------------
+`git mergetool` honors the `diff.orderFile` configuration variable
+used by `git diff`. See linkgit:git-config[1] for more details.
+
TEMPORARY FILES
---------------
`git mergetool` creates `*.orig` backup files while resolving merges.