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From: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Subject: [PATCH] Documentation/diff: give --word-diff-regex=. example
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2015 14:36:14 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <6697f80b679b2bc910aa02a0fc945453be38c532.1448026505.git.git@drmicha.warpmail.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <vpq1tbq812p.fsf@anie.imag.fr>

It's just so useful.

Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
---
 Documentation/diff-options.txt | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/diff-options.txt b/Documentation/diff-options.txt
index d56ca90..306b7e3 100644
--- a/Documentation/diff-options.txt
+++ b/Documentation/diff-options.txt
@@ -267,6 +267,9 @@ expression to make sure that it matches all non-whitespace characters.
 A match that contains a newline is silently truncated(!) at the
 newline.
 +
+For example, `--word-diff-regex=.` will treat each character as a word
+and, correspondingly, show differences character by character.
++
 The regex can also be set via a diff driver or configuration option, see
 linkgit:gitattributes[1] or linkgit:git-config[1].  Giving it explicitly
 overrides any diff driver or configuration setting.  Diff drivers
-- 
2.6.3.507.gca54332

  reply	other threads:[~2015-11-20 13:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-11-16 14:25 --color-diff='.' considered useful Michael J Gruber
2015-11-16 14:34 ` Matthieu Moy
2015-11-20 13:36   ` Michael J Gruber [this message]
2015-11-20 14:59     ` [PATCH] Documentation/diff: give --word-diff-regex=. example Matthieu Moy

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