Re: git diff: support "-U" and "--unified" options properly

From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: May 13, 2006, 20:30 UTC
Message-ID: <7v4pztu0p6.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0605131317200.3866@g5.osdl.org>

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> writes:

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> We used to parse "-U" and "--unified" as part of the GIT_DIFF_OPTS 
> environment variable, but strangely enough we would _not_ parse them as 
> part of the normal diff command line (where we only accepted "-u").
>
> This adds parsing of -U and --unified, both with an optional numeric 
> argument. So now you can just say
>
> 	git diff --unified=5
>
> [ Maybe this can still hit 1.3.3? ]

I think so.