Thread (1 message) 1 message, 1 author, 2016-06-15

Re: [PATCH 3/5] Explicitly list all valid diff tools and document --tool-help as an option

From: Junio C Hamano <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:54:18

Sebastian Schuberth [off-list ref] writes:
quoted hunk
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Schuberth <redacted>
---
 Documentation/git-difftool.txt | 9 ++++++---
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-difftool.txt b/Documentation/git-difftool.txt
index 31fc2e3..5dd54f1 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-difftool.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-difftool.txt
@@ -36,9 +36,12 @@ OPTIONS
 
 -t <tool>::
 --tool=<tool>::
-	Use the diff tool specified by <tool>.  Valid values include
-	emerge, kompare, meld, and vimdiff. Run `git difftool --tool-help`
-	for the list of valid <tool> settings.
I thought we say "include" because we really do not want to list
millions of tools here, so mild NAK on this part.
+	Use the diff tool specified by <tool>.  Valid diff tools are:
+	araxis, bc3, diffuse, ecmerge, emerge, gvimdiff, kcompare, kdiff3,
+	meld, opendiff, p4merge, tkdiff, vimdiff and xxdiff.
+
+--tool-help::
+	List the supported and available diff tools.
This part is a good addition (but it already is mentioned in the
description of --tool above, so it is more or less a "Meh").
 +
 If a diff tool is not specified, 'git difftool'
 will use the configuration variable `diff.tool`.  If the
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