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diff --git a/Documentation/gitattributes.txt b/Documentation/gitattributes.txt index 9a752570f..2ae771f2f 100644 --- a/Documentation/gitattributes.txt +++ b/Documentation/gitattributes.txt @@ -270,27 +270,27 @@ See linkgit:git[1] for details. Defining a custom hunk-header ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ -Each group of changes (called "hunk") in the textual diff output +Each group of changes (called a "hunk") in the textual diff output is prefixed with a line of the form: @@ -k,l +n,m @@ TEXT -The text is called 'hunk header', and by default a line that -begins with an alphabet, an underscore or a dollar sign is used, -which matches what GNU 'diff -p' output uses. This default -selection however is not suited for some contents, and you can -use customized pattern to make a selection. +This is called a 'hunk header'. The "TEXT" portion is by default a line +that begins with an alphabet, an underscore or a dollar sign; this +matches what GNU 'diff -p' output uses. This default selection however +is not suited for some contents, and you can use a customized pattern +to make a selection. -First in .gitattributes, you would assign the `diff` attribute +First, in .gitattributes, you would assign the `diff` attribute for paths. ------------------------ *.tex diff=tex ------------------------ -Then, you would define "diff.tex.xfuncname" configuration to +Then, you would define a "diff.tex.xfuncname" configuration to specify a regular expression that matches a line that you would -want to appear as the hunk header, like this: +want to appear as the hunk header "TEXT", like this: ------------------------ [diff "tex"] |