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Document diff.external and mergetool.<tool>.path

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There was no documentation for the config variables diff.external
and mergetool.<tool>.path.

Noticed by Sebastian Schuberth.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Johannes Schindelin 2007-12-17 12:21:22 +00:00 committed by Junio C Hamano
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@ -448,6 +448,13 @@ diff.autorefreshindex::
affects only `git diff` Porcelain, and not lower level
`diff` commands, such as `git diff-files`.
diff.external::
If this config variable is set, diff generation is not
performed using the internal diff machinery, but using the
given command. Note: if you want to use an external diff
program only on a subset of your files, you might want to
use gitlink:gitattributes[5] instead.
diff.renameLimit::
The number of files to consider when performing the copy/rename
detection; equivalent to the git diff option '-l'.
@ -671,6 +678,10 @@ merge.<driver>.recursive::
performing an internal merge between common ancestors.
See gitlink:gitattributes[5] for details.
mergetool.<tool>.path::
Override the path for the given tool. This is useful in case
your tool is not in the PATH.
pack.window::
The size of the window used by gitlink:git-pack-objects[1] when no
window size is given on the command line. Defaults to 10.