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authorRichard Hansen <hansenr@google.com>2017-01-15 17:16:30 -0500
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2017-01-15 16:39:12 -0800
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parenta274e0a036ea886a31f8b216564ab1b4a3142f6c (diff)
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diff: document behavior of relative diff.orderFile
Document that a relative pathname for diff.orderFile is interpreted as relative to the top-level work directory. Signed-off-by: Richard Hansen <hansenr@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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diff --git a/Documentation/diff-config.txt b/Documentation/diff-config.txt
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--- a/Documentation/diff-config.txt
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@@ -101,6 +101,8 @@ diff.noprefix::
diff.orderFile::
File indicating how to order files within a diff, using
one shell glob pattern per line.
+ If `diff.orderFile` is a relative pathname, it is treated as
+ relative to the top of the working tree.
Can be overridden by the '-O' option to linkgit:git-diff[1].
diff.renameLimit::