* Missing documentation for GIT_DIFF_OPTS and GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF
@ 2007-02-13 22:36 Yann Dirson
2007-02-14 1:27 ` Jakub Narebski
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From: Yann Dirson @ 2007-02-13 22:36 UTC (permalink / raw)
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I noticed today, after unsuccessfully trying GIT_DIFF_OPTS=-U2, that
1) it did not work, 2) the doc in 1.4.4.4 tells about using
"GIT_DIFF_OPTS=-c", which does not work either and 3) there is
virtually no more doc about it in HEAD.
It would be useful to document which flags are recognized, and notably
that -u<n> has to be used instead of GNU diff's -U<n>.
At the same time, I noticed that GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF is not described in
the diff docs either, although it is described in the main git.txt
page (which may not be the place where users would look for it - at
least, only my grep aiming to be accurate before composing this mail
finally found it).
Best regards,
--
Yann.
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* Re: Missing documentation for GIT_DIFF_OPTS and GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF
2007-02-13 22:36 Missing documentation for GIT_DIFF_OPTS and GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF Yann Dirson
@ 2007-02-14 1:27 ` Jakub Narebski
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From: Jakub Narebski @ 2007-02-14 1:27 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: git
Yann Dirson wrote:
> I noticed today, after unsuccessfully trying GIT_DIFF_OPTS=-U2, that
> 1) it did not work, 2) the doc in 1.4.4.4 tells about using
> "GIT_DIFF_OPTS=-c", which does not work either and 3) there is
> virtually no more doc about it in HEAD.
>
> It would be useful to document which flags are recognized, and notably
> that -u<n> has to be used instead of GNU diff's -U<n>.
>
> At the same time, I noticed that GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF is not described in
> the diff docs either, although it is described in the main git.txt
> page (which may not be the place where users would look for it - at
> least, only my grep aiming to be accurate before composing this mail
> finally found it).
GIT_DIFF_OPTS are also described there.
--
Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
ShadeHawk on #git
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