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"git show" does not use diff.external like "git diff" does

From
Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Date
Dec 28, 2010, 15:10 UTC
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<201012281510.oBSFAMm14943@momjian.us>

I have diff.external configured properly, and it is used by "git diff", but "git show" does not call the script and only returns unified diffs.

Is there a way to make "git show" use an external diff script?
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