X-Git-Url: https://git.tokkee.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=Documentation%2Fgitattributes.txt;h=e848c94397dedc93652e8027df1ad081f08d2d03;hb=3791f77c28f233df121da2f83abf7eefc7b49b69;hp=6f3551dc825a04628e7bcd133421093d89f01956;hpb=c4398286fa5245cf54d73f6016444179d73f140b;p=git.git diff --git a/Documentation/gitattributes.txt b/Documentation/gitattributes.txt index 6f3551dc8..e848c9439 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"]