Re: [PATCH 4/6] doc: add more pointers to gitattributes(5) for userdiff

From: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Date: Oct 28, 2020, 17:26 UTC
Message-ID: <CAPig+cTA7akd7oB_14yBRhxXrH-mVX3yVtaPDdFDT+OTZdQuQQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <da76a10717c917abab9e1bd5ab78db2a4f7ca7c0.1603889270.git.gitgitgadget@gmail.com>

On Wed, Oct 28, 2020 at 8:48 AM Philippe Blain via GitGitGadget <gitgitgadget@gmail.com> wrote:

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> Several Git commands can make use of the builtin userdiff patterns, but
> it's not obvious in the documentation. Add pointers to the 'Defining a
> custom hunk header' part of gitattributes(5) in the description of the
> following options:
> [...]
> Signed-off-by: Philippe Blain <levraiphilippeblain@gmail.com>
> ---
> diff --git a/Documentation/diff-options.txt b/Documentation/diff-options.txt
> @@ -695,7 +695,10 @@ endif::git-format-patch[]
>  --function-context::
> -       Show whole surrounding functions of changes.
> +       Show whole functions as context lines for each changes.

s/changes/change/

> +       The function names are determined in the same way as
> +       `git diff` works out patch hunk headers (see 'Defining a
> +       custom hunk-header' in linkgit:gitattributes[5]).