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
next parent 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
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=Pine.LNX.4.64.0712171220540.9446@racer.site \
--to=johannes.schindelin@gmx.de \
--cc=git@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=gitster@pobox.com \
--cc=sschuberth@visageimaging.com \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).