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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/diff-options.txt | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-check-ignore.txt | 10 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git.txt | 12 |
3 files changed, 14 insertions, 11 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 diff --git a/Documentation/git-check-ignore.txt b/Documentation/git-check-ignore.txt index 59531abba4..e94367a5ed 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-check-ignore.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-check-ignore.txt @@ -16,10 +16,9 @@ DESCRIPTION ----------- For each pathname given via the command-line or from a file via -`--stdin`, show the pattern from .gitignore (or other input files to -the exclude mechanism) that decides if the pathname is excluded or -included. Later patterns within a file take precedence over earlier -ones. +`--stdin`, check whether the file is excluded by .gitignore (or other +input files to the exclude mechanism) and output the path if it is +excluded. By default, tracked files are not shown at all since they are not subject to exclude rules; but see `--no-index'. @@ -32,7 +31,8 @@ OPTIONS -v, --verbose:: Also output details about the matching pattern (if any) - for each given pathname. + for each given pathname. For precedence rules within and + between exclude sources, see linkgit:gitignore[5]. --stdin:: Read pathnames from the standard input, one per line, diff --git a/Documentation/git.txt b/Documentation/git.txt index c2e2a94e75..900272b1c3 100644 --- a/Documentation/git.txt +++ b/Documentation/git.txt @@ -1056,7 +1056,7 @@ of clones and fetches. cloning of shallow repositories. See 'GIT_TRACE' for available trace output options. -GIT_LITERAL_PATHSPECS:: +'GIT_LITERAL_PATHSPECS':: Setting this variable to `1` will cause Git to treat all pathspecs literally, rather than as glob patterns. For example, running `GIT_LITERAL_PATHSPECS=1 git log -- '*.c'` will search @@ -1065,15 +1065,15 @@ GIT_LITERAL_PATHSPECS:: literal paths to Git (e.g., paths previously given to you by `git ls-tree`, `--raw` diff output, etc). -GIT_GLOB_PATHSPECS:: +'GIT_GLOB_PATHSPECS':: Setting this variable to `1` will cause Git to treat all pathspecs as glob patterns (aka "glob" magic). -GIT_NOGLOB_PATHSPECS:: +'GIT_NOGLOB_PATHSPECS':: Setting this variable to `1` will cause Git to treat all pathspecs as literal (aka "literal" magic). -GIT_ICASE_PATHSPECS:: +'GIT_ICASE_PATHSPECS':: Setting this variable to `1` will cause Git to treat all pathspecs as case-insensitive. @@ -1087,7 +1087,7 @@ GIT_ICASE_PATHSPECS:: variable when it is invoked as the top level command by the end user, to be recorded in the body of the reflog. -`GIT_REF_PARANOIA`:: +'GIT_REF_PARANOIA':: If set to `1`, include broken or badly named refs when iterating over lists of refs. In a normal, non-corrupted repository, this does nothing. However, enabling it may help git to detect and @@ -1098,7 +1098,7 @@ GIT_ICASE_PATHSPECS:: an operation has touched every ref (e.g., because you are cloning a repository to make a backup). -`GIT_ALLOW_PROTOCOL`:: +'GIT_ALLOW_PROTOCOL':: If set, provide a colon-separated list of protocols which are allowed to be used with fetch/push/clone. This is useful to restrict recursive submodule initialization from an untrusted |