Re: Missing documentation for GIT_DIFF_OPTS and GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF

From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Feb 14, 2007, 01:27 UTC
Message-ID: <eqtof8$8id$1@sea.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <20070213223657.GC4266@nan92-1-81-57-214-146.fbx.proxad.net>

Yann Dirson wrote:

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> 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<n> has to be used instead of GNU diff's -U<n>.
> 
> 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.

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Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
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