From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jakub Narebski Subject: Re: Missing documentation for GIT_DIFF_OPTS and GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 02:27:50 +0100 Organization: At home Message-ID: References: <20070213223657.GC4266@nan92-1-81-57-214-146.fbx.proxad.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Feb 14 02:26:31 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HH8uj-00029S-VG for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Wed, 14 Feb 2007 02:26:30 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751494AbXBNB00 (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Feb 2007 20:26:26 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751499AbXBNB00 (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Feb 2007 20:26:26 -0500 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:52882 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751494AbXBNB0Z (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Feb 2007 20:26:25 -0500 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1HH8uN-0005t4-VY for git@vger.kernel.org; Wed, 14 Feb 2007 02:26:07 +0100 Received: from host-81-190-25-81.torun.mm.pl ([81.190.25.81]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 14 Feb 2007 02:26:07 +0100 Received: from jnareb by host-81-190-25-81.torun.mm.pl with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 14 Feb 2007 02:26:07 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: host-81-190-25-81.torun.mm.pl Mail-Copies-To: Jakub Narebski User-Agent: KNode/0.10.2 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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 has to be used instead of GNU diff's -U. > > 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