{"thread":{"id":"6809","subject":"Missing documentation for GIT_DIFF_OPTS and GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF","startedAt":"2007-02-13T22:36:57Z","lastAt":"2007-02-14T01:27:50Z","messageCount":2,"participants":["Yann Dirson","Jakub Narebski"],"isPatch":false,"patchVersion":null,"patchTotal":null},"messages":[{"id":"34475","messageId":"20070213223657.GC4266@nan92-1-81-57-214-146.fbx.proxad.net","threadId":"6809","inReplyTo":null,"subject":"Missing documentation for GIT_DIFF_OPTS and GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF","fromName":"Yann Dirson","fromEmail":"ydirson@altern.org","sentAt":"2007-02-13T22:36:57Z","receivedAt":"2007-02-13T22:36:57Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"ydirson@altern.org","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1190950?v=4"},"body":"I noticed today, after unsuccessfully trying GIT_DIFF_OPTS=-U2, that\n1) it did not work, 2) the doc in 1.4.4.4 tells about using\n\"GIT_DIFF_OPTS=-c\", which does not work either and 3) there is\nvirtually no more doc about it in HEAD.\n\nIt would be useful to document which flags are recognized, and notably\nthat -u<n> has to be used instead of GNU diff's -U<n>.\n\nAt the same time, I noticed that GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF is not described in\nthe diff docs either, although it is described in the main git.txt\npage (which may not be the place where users would look for it - at\nleast, only my grep aiming to be accurate before composing this mail\nfinally found it).\n\nBest regards,\n-- \nYann.\n"},{"id":"34488","messageId":"eqtof8$8id$1@sea.gmane.org","threadId":"6809","inReplyTo":"20070213223657.GC4266@nan92-1-81-57-214-146.fbx.proxad.net","subject":"Re: Missing documentation for GIT_DIFF_OPTS and GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF","fromName":"Jakub Narebski","fromEmail":"jnareb@gmail.com","sentAt":"2007-02-14T01:27:50Z","receivedAt":"2007-02-14T01:27:50Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"jnareb@gmail.com","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/2706?v=4"},"body":"Yann Dirson wrote:\n\n> I noticed today, after unsuccessfully trying GIT_DIFF_OPTS=-U2, that\n> 1) it did not work, 2) the doc in 1.4.4.4 tells about using\n> \"GIT_DIFF_OPTS=-c\", which does not work either and 3) there is\n> virtually no more doc about it in HEAD.\n> \n> It would be useful to document which flags are recognized, and notably\n> that -u<n> has to be used instead of GNU diff's -U<n>.\n> \n> At the same time, I noticed that GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF is not described in\n> the diff docs either, although it is described in the main git.txt\n> page (which may not be the place where users would look for it - at\n> least, only my grep aiming to be accurate before composing this mail\n> finally found it).\n\nGIT_DIFF_OPTS are also described there.\n-- \nJakub Narebski\nWarsaw, Poland\nShadeHawk on #git\n"}]}