Junio C Hamano wrote: > Bruce Momjian <bruce@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > 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? > > "git show --ext-diff"? > > We end the Description section of the manual with "This manual page > describes only the most frequently used options." without explicitly > saying "Options from the underlying this and that commands can be given as > well", which is rather suboptimal. > > The only existing hint there is one sentence before, "The command takes > options applicable to the git diff-tree command...", but the reader needs > to be both careful and vaguely familiar with the way the git command set > is structured to take advantage of that hint. Yes, someone on IRC eventually suggested --ext-diff, and it does work. I was hoping for something that caused 'show' to always use --ext-diff, like git diff does. A git alias was the only suggested workaround. -- Bruce Momjian <bruce@xxxxxxxxxx> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com + It's impossible for everything to be true. + -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html