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diff --git a/Documentation/lei-rediff.pod b/Documentation/lei-rediff.pod index c7db6c1e..f34e946f 100644 --- a/Documentation/lei-rediff.pod +++ b/Documentation/lei-rediff.pod @@ -15,10 +15,15 @@ the specified L<git-diff(1)> options. This is useful if you want to change the display of the original patch (e.g., increasing context, coloring moved lines differently, or using an external diff viewer). +It relies on the contents of the .git directory of your current +project working tree. In other words, it works anywhere +L<git-am(1)> works. Otherwise, C<--git-dir=> may be specified +any number of times to add repositories to build blob data from. + =head1 OPTIONS -In addition to many L<git-diff(1)>, the following options are -supported. +In addition to many L<git-diff(1)> options (e.g. C<-W>, C<-w>, +C<-U $LINES>) the following options are supported: =over @@ -27,15 +32,29 @@ supported. Read message from stdin. This is implicit if no arguments are given and stdin is a pipe or regular file. +For users of text editors and pagers capable of piping its +buffer to arbitrary commands, it is useful to pipe a patch email +to C<lei rediff> before piping it to L<git-am(1)>. The output +of C<lei rediff> is compatible with C<git am> if its input was a +patch email. + =item --git-dir=DIR Specify an additional .git/ directory to scan. This option may be given multiple times. +Default: the output of C<git rev-parse --git-dir> + =item --no-cwd Do not look in the git repository of the current working directory. +=item -q + +=item --quiet + +Suppress progress output. + =item -v =item --verbose |