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authorLibravatar Charles Bailey <charles@hashpling.org>2008-03-08 20:46:34 +0000
committerLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2008-03-08 13:22:55 -0800
commitbbdfbc4b01b38489a0c171bc70c89e017c759cdc (patch)
treeefd6abb9e72e0551d4a88b40837266d31d37750d /Documentation
parentMerge branch 'aw/maint-shortlog-blank-lines' (diff)
downloadtgif-bbdfbc4b01b38489a0c171bc70c89e017c759cdc.tar.xz
git-mergetool documentaiton: show toolnames in typewriter font
Signed-off-by: Charles Bailey <charles@hashpling.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-mergetool.txt16
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diff --git a/Documentation/git-mergetool.txt b/Documentation/git-mergetool.txt
index 50f106ec5b..ac8969cee5 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-mergetool.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-mergetool.txt
@@ -12,12 +12,12 @@ SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
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-Use 'git mergetool' to run one of several merge utilities to resolve
+Use `git mergetool` to run one of several merge utilities to resolve
merge conflicts. It is typically run after linkgit:git-merge[1].
If one or more <file> parameters are given, the merge tool program will
be run to resolve differences on each file. If no <file> names are
-specified, 'git mergetool' will run the merge tool program on every file
+specified, `git mergetool` will run the merge tool program on every file
with merge conflicts.
OPTIONS
@@ -27,16 +27,16 @@ OPTIONS
Valid merge tools are:
kdiff3, tkdiff, meld, xxdiff, emerge, vimdiff, gvimdiff, ecmerge, and opendiff
+
-If a merge resolution program is not specified, 'git mergetool'
-will use the configuration variable merge.tool. If the
-configuration variable merge.tool is not set, 'git mergetool'
+If a merge resolution program is not specified, `git mergetool`
+will use the configuration variable `merge.tool`. If the
+configuration variable `merge.tool` is not set, `git mergetool`
will pick a suitable default.
+
You can explicitly provide a full path to the tool by setting the
-configuration variable mergetool.<tool>.path. For example, you
+configuration variable `mergetool.<tool>.path`. For example, you
can configure the absolute path to kdiff3 by setting
-mergetool.kdiff3.path. Otherwise, 'git mergetool' assumes the tool
-is available in PATH.
+`mergetool.kdiff3.path`. Otherwise, `git mergetool` assumes the
+tool is available in PATH.
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