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-rw-r--r--ChangeLog7
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diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes
index ca4ea2772a..35a14df8a2 100644
--- a/.gitattributes
+++ b/.gitattributes
@@ -1 +1,6 @@
+# See lib/git-merge-changelog.c for making this useful.
ChangeLog merge=merge-changelog
+
+# Run this to make 'git diff' on texinfo files give nicer hunk context:
+# git config diff.texinfo.funcname '^@node[ ][ ]*\\([^,][^,]*\\)'
+*.texi* diff=texinfo
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index b08b0c763c..a18e8ea2e4 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+2009-08-14 Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>
+
+ doc: improve git diff of texinfo files
+ * .gitattributes: Add rule for *.texi files, with hint on how to
+ use it.
+ Copied from m4, and based on a report by Bruno Haible.
+
2009-08-14 Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>
Disable multithread support by default on Cygwin 1.5.x for real.