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authorJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2016-10-04 15:26:27 -0700
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2016-10-04 15:49:05 -0700
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diff: introduce diff.wsErrorHighlight option
With the preparatory steps, it has become trivial to teach the system a new diff.wsErrorHighlight configuration that gives the default value for --ws-error-highlight command line option. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/diff-config.txt6
-rw-r--r--Documentation/diff-options.txt2
2 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/diff-config.txt b/Documentation/diff-config.txt
index 6eaa45271..c0396e66a 100644
--- a/Documentation/diff-config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/diff-config.txt
@@ -182,3 +182,9 @@ diff.algorithm::
low-occurrence common elements".
--
+
+
+diff.wsErrorHighlight::
+ A comma separated list of `old`, `new`, `context`, that
+ specifies how whitespace errors on lines are highlighted
+ with `color.diff.whitespace`. Can be overridden by the
+ command line option `--ws-error-highlight=<kind>`
diff --git a/Documentation/diff-options.txt b/Documentation/diff-options.txt
index 306b7e360..dfd6bc99c 100644
--- a/Documentation/diff-options.txt
+++ b/Documentation/diff-options.txt
@@ -303,6 +303,8 @@ ifndef::git-format-patch[]
lines are highlighted. E.g. `--ws-error-highlight=new,old`
highlights whitespace errors on both deleted and added lines.
`all` can be used as a short-hand for `old,new,context`.
+ The `diff.wsErrorHighlight` configuration variable can be
+ used to specify the default behaviour.
endif::git-format-patch[]