Re: git: how to produce context diffs?

On Mon, 27 Nov 2006 17:05:35 +0100
Jakub Narebski [off-list ref] wrote:

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It appears the only valid options now are "-u XX" and "--unified=XX".

Which both mean the same.

Yes, I guess I should have said that.  The point was really that you
can't pass any-diff-option and expect it to work.

Which, in convoluted way is said in documentation (the fact that
GIT_DIFF_OPTS affect internal diff).

The idea is to make it less convoluted.  It directly says that -c should
work _because_ it use to work when the options were passed to external
diff.  It's not just -c that won't work, none of the other myriad external
diff options will work either.

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Unless i've really missed something, the above documentation should be
reworked to remove mention of running diff altogether, and should mention
that the GIT_DIFF_OPTS only has two valid settings.

For now.

Well the documentation can be updated later if additional options
are added.