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authorLibravatar Jeff King <peff@peff.net>2015-05-27 03:22:19 -0400
committerLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2015-05-27 13:54:37 -0700
commit74b15bfbf6f7efffa40fda170b3a3cb0218d8651 (patch)
treec16ad79e5098f609e7c61301ca995fdbe3ebdc32 /Documentation
parentGit 2.2.2 (diff)
downloadtgif-74b15bfbf6f7efffa40fda170b3a3cb0218d8651.tar.xz
diff: accept color.diff.context as a synonym for "plain"
The term "plain" is a bit ambiguous; let's allow the more specific "context", but keep "plain" around for compatibility. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
index 9335ff2ae2..b458590f26 100644
--- a/Documentation/config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config.txt
@@ -870,7 +870,8 @@ command line with the `--color[=<when>]` option.
color.diff.<slot>::
Use customized color for diff colorization. `<slot>` specifies
which part of the patch to use the specified color, and is one
- of `plain` (context text), `meta` (metainformation), `frag`
+ of `context` (context text - `plain` is a historical synonym),
+ `meta` (metainformation), `frag`
(hunk header), 'func' (function in hunk header), `old` (removed lines),
`new` (added lines), `commit` (commit headers), or `whitespace`
(highlighting whitespace errors). The values of these variables may be