Jeff King [off-list ref] writes:
This was added long ago as part of the userdiff refactoring
for textconv, as internally it made the code simpler and
cleaner. However, there was never a concrete use case for
actually using the config variable.
Now that Matthieu Moy has provided such a use case, it's
easy to explain it using his example.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <redacted>
Acked-by: Matthieu Moy <redacted>
Thanks,
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Matthieu Moy
http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/