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From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
To: "Schuberth, Sebastian" <sschuberth@visageimaging.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, gitster@pobox.com
Subject: [PATCH] Document diff.external and mergetool.<tool>.path
Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2007 12:21:22 +0000 (GMT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0712171220540.9446@racer.site> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E6DFE65BB5ADFE44BE13CCC976124447D5BB8D@fue-email2.ad.mc.com>


There was no documentation for the config variables diff.external
and mergetool.<tool>.path.

Noticed by Sebastian Schuberth.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
---
 Documentation/config.txt |   11 +++++++++++
 1 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
index ce16fc7..8a0df57 100644
--- a/Documentation/config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config.txt
@@ -448,6 +448,13 @@ diff.autorefreshindex::
 	affects only `git diff` Porcelain, and not lower level
 	`diff` commands, such as `git diff-files`.
 
+diff.external::
+	If this config variable is set, diff generation is not
+	performed using the internal diff machinery, but using the
+	given command.  Note: if you want to use an external diff
+	program only on a subset of your files, you might want to
+	use gitlink:gitattributes[5] instead.
+
 diff.renameLimit::
 	The number of files to consider when performing the copy/rename
 	detection; equivalent to the git diff option '-l'.
@@ -671,6 +678,10 @@ merge.<driver>.recursive::
 	performing an internal merge between common ancestors.
 	See gitlink:gitattributes[5] for details.
 
+mergetool.<tool>.path::
+	Override the path for the given tool.  This is useful in case
+	your tool is not in the PATH.
+
 pack.window::
 	The size of the window used by gitlink:git-pack-objects[1] when no
 	window size is given on the command line. Defaults to 10.
-- 
1.5.4.rc0.36.g7680

       reply	other threads:[~2007-12-17 12:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <E6DFE65BB5ADFE44BE13CCC976124447D5BB8D@fue-email2.ad.mc.com>
2007-12-17 12:21 ` Johannes Schindelin [this message]
2007-12-17 13:42   ` [PATCH] Actually add config variable diff.external Johannes Schindelin
2007-12-18  0:13   ` [PATCH] Document diff.external and mergetool.<tool>.path Junio C Hamano
2007-12-18  0:47     ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-12-18  0:52       ` Junio C Hamano
2007-12-18  1:00         ` Johannes Schindelin

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