add a "basic" diff config callback

The diff porcelain uses git_diff_ui_config to set
porcelain-ish config options, like automatically turning on
color. The plumbing specifically avoids calling this
function, since it doesn't want things like automatic color
or rename detection.

However, some diff options should be set for both plumbing
and porcelain. For example, one can still turn on color in
git-diff-files using the --color command line option. This
means we want the color config from color.diff.* (so that
once color is on, we use the user's preferred scheme), but
_not_ the color.diff variable.

We split the diff config into "ui" and "basic", where
"basic" is suitable for use by plumbing (so _most_ things
affecting the output should still go into the "ui" part).

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/diff.c b/diff.c
index 5bdc111378..44aa477c41 100644
--- a/diff.c
+++ b/diff.c
@@ -178,6 +178,12 @@ int git_diff_ui_config(const char *var, const char *value)
 				return parse_funcname_pattern(var, ep, value);
 		}
 	}
+
+	return git_diff_basic_config(var, value);
+}
+
+int git_diff_basic_config(const char *var, const char *value)
+{
 	if (!prefixcmp(var, "diff.color.") || !prefixcmp(var, "color.diff.")) {
 		int slot = parse_diff_color_slot(var, 11);
 		color_parse(value, var, diff_colors[slot]);