Re: [PATCH v2 4/4] add-patch: add diff.context command line overrides

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: May 12, 2025, 16:45 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqq5xi5vkvi.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <973dfadd1b3c7e214b14c75494b3b3b786227362.1746884789.git.gitgitgadget@gmail.com>

"Leon Michalak via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@gmail.com> writes:

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> diff --git a/Documentation/diff-context-options.adoc b/Documentation/diff-context-options.adoc
> new file mode 100644
> index 000000000000..e161260358ff
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/Documentation/diff-context-options.adoc
> @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
> +`-U<n>`::
> +`--unified=<n>`::
> +	Generate diffs with _<n>_ lines of context. Defaults to `diff.context`
> +	or 3 if the config option is unset.
> +
> +`--inter-hunk-context=<n>`::
> +	Show the context between diff hunks, up to the specified _<number>_
> +	of lines, thereby fusing hunks that are close to each other.
> +	Defaults to `diff.interHunkContext` or 0 if the config option
> +	is unset.

It might not be trivial to do but I wonder if we cannot do better than this to share more of the same text across manual pages. These two being options understood by `git diff`, we certainly have an existing description for them, no?

Other than that, looking good to me.

Thanks.