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diff --git a/Documentation/technical/api-diff.txt b/Documentation/technical/api-diff.txt index 20b0241d30..8b001de0db 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/api-diff.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/api-diff.txt @@ -28,11 +28,12 @@ Calling sequence * Call `diff_setup_done()`; this inspects the options set up so far for internal consistency and make necessary tweaking to it (e.g. if - textual patch output was asked, recursive behaviour is turned on). + textual patch output was asked, recursive behaviour is turned on); + the callback set_default in diff_options can be used to tweak this more. * As you find different pairs of files, call `diff_change()` to feed modified files, `diff_addremove()` to feed created or deleted files, - or `diff_unmerged()` to feed a file whose state is 'unmerged' to the + or `diff_unmerge()` to feed a file whose state is 'unmerged' to the API. These are thin wrappers to a lower-level `diff_queue()` function that is flexible enough to record any of these kinds of changes. @@ -50,7 +51,7 @@ Data structures This is the internal representation for a single file (blob). It records the blob object name (if known -- for a work tree file it typically is a NUL SHA-1), filemode and pathname. This is what the -`diff_addremove()`, `diff_change()` and `diff_unmerged()` synthesize and +`diff_addremove()`, `diff_change()` and `diff_unmerge()` synthesize and feed `diff_queue()` function with. * `struct diff_filepair` @@ -115,6 +116,13 @@ Notable members are: operation, but some do not have anything to do with the diffcore library. +`touched_flags`:: + Records whether a flag has been changed due to user request + (rather than just set/unset by default). + +`set_default`:: + Callback which allows tweaking the options in diff_setup_done(). + BINARY, TEXT;; Affects the way how a file that is seemingly binary is treated. |