From: Garry Dolley Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2008 06:20:39 +0000 (-0700) Subject: Clarified gitattributes documentation regarding custom hunk header. X-Git-Tag: v1.6.0.3~87 X-Git-Url: http://git.tremily.us/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=c882c01ef9c5a82c1282fd1cb094bb8f97472d7d;p=git.git Clarified gitattributes documentation regarding custom hunk header. The only part of the hunk header that we can change is the "TEXT" portion. Additionally, a few grammatical errors have been corrected. Signed-off-by: Garry Dolley Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- diff --git a/Documentation/gitattributes.txt b/Documentation/gitattributes.txt index 94e6752aa..89627688b 100644 --- a/Documentation/gitattributes.txt +++ b/Documentation/gitattributes.txt @@ -270,27 +270,27 @@ See linkgit:git[1] for details. Defining a custom hunk-header ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ -Each group of changes (called "hunk") in the textual diff output +Each group of changes (called a "hunk") in the textual diff output is prefixed with a line of the form: @@ -k,l +n,m @@ TEXT -The text is called 'hunk header', and by default a line that -begins with an alphabet, an underscore or a dollar sign is used, -which matches what GNU 'diff -p' output uses. This default -selection however is not suited for some contents, and you can -use customized pattern to make a selection. +This is called a 'hunk header'. The "TEXT" portion is by default a line +that begins with an alphabet, an underscore or a dollar sign; this +matches what GNU 'diff -p' output uses. This default selection however +is not suited for some contents, and you can use a customized pattern +to make a selection. -First in .gitattributes, you would assign the `diff` attribute +First, in .gitattributes, you would assign the `diff` attribute for paths. ------------------------ *.tex diff=tex ------------------------ -Then, you would define "diff.tex.funcname" configuration to +Then, you would define a "diff.tex.funcname" configuration to specify a regular expression that matches a line that you would -want to appear as the hunk header, like this: +want to appear as the hunk header "TEXT", like this: ------------------------ [diff "tex"]