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| author |  Jeff King <peff@peff.net> | 2015-12-01 17:21:11 -0500 |
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| committer | Jeff King <peff@peff.net> | 2015-12-01 17:21:11 -0500 |
| commit | 2cc36407df4eb919c4ad3da0561d1bbdb9e0c0c4 (patch) | |
| tree | 94caf745ceb360e6fed5e3c23c6cb52323c85658 | |
| parent | Merge branch 'cb/ssl-config-pathnames' into maint (diff) | |
| parent | Documentation/diff: give --word-diff-regex=. example (diff) | |
| download | tgif-2cc36407df4eb919c4ad3da0561d1bbdb9e0c0c4.tar.xz | |
Merge branch 'mg/doc-word-diff-example' into maint
* mg/doc-word-diff-example:
Documentation/diff: give --word-diff-regex=. example
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/diff-options.txt | 3 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/diff-options.txt b/Documentation/diff-options.txt index d56ca90998..306b7e3604 100644 --- a/Documentation/diff-options.txt +++ b/Documentation/diff-options.txt @@ -267,6 +267,9 @@ expression to make sure that it matches all non-whitespace characters. A match that contains a newline is silently truncated(!) at the newline. + +For example, `--word-diff-regex=.` will treat each character as a word +and, correspondingly, show differences character by character. ++ The regex can also be set via a diff driver or configuration option, see linkgit:gitattributes[1] or linkgit:git-config[1]. Giving it explicitly overrides any diff driver or configuration setting. Diff drivers |