Yann Dirson wrote: > 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. -- Jakub Narebski Warsaw, Poland ShadeHawk on #git - 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