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| author |  Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net> | 2015-11-20 14:36:14 +0100 |
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| committer |  Jeff King <peff@peff.net> | 2015-11-24 18:38:46 -0500 |
| commit | 2c15c006511e03e775fa5f2e44b37ae9313833b0 (patch) | |
| tree | c183df9118a08b319f735b082c7acd66fdce011b /Documentation | |
| parent | Documentation/git-update-index: add missing opts to synopsys (diff) | |
| download | tgif-2c15c006511e03e775fa5f2e44b37ae9313833b0.tar.xz | |
Documentation/diff: give --word-diff-regex=. example
It's just so useful.
Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -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 |