diff.orderfile acts as a default for the -O command line option.

[sb: split up aw's original patch; rework tests and docs, treat option
as pathname]

Signed-off-by: Anders Waldenborg <anders@0x63.nu>
Signed-off-by: Samuel Bronson <naesten@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

'git status' and 'git commit' can be told to also show the output of "git
submodule summary" by setting the "status.submodulesummary" config option.
But status and commit also honor the "diff.ignoreSubmodules" and the
"submodule.<name>.ignore" settings, which then disable the summary partly
or completely. This - and the fact that the last two settings do not
affect the "git submodule" commands at all - is not well documented.

Extend the documentation in those places where "status.submodulesummary",
"diff.ignoreSubmodules" and "submodule.<name>.ignore" are described to
better explain these dependencies.

Thanks-to: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Signed-off-by: Jens Lehmann <Jens.Lehmann@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Add diff.algorithm configuration so that the user does not type
"diff --histogram".

* mp/diff-algo-config:
  diff: Introduce --diff-algorithm command line option
  config: Introduce diff.algorithm variable
  git-completion.bash: Autocomplete --minimal and --histogram for git-diff

Build on top of the clean-up done by jk/mergetool and automatically
generate the list of mergetool and difftool backends the build
supports to be included in the documentation.

* da/mergetool-docs:
  doc: generate a list of valid merge tools
  mergetool--lib: list user configured tools in '--tool-help'
  mergetool--lib: add functions for finding available tools
  mergetool--lib: improve the help text in guess_merge_tool()
  mergetool--lib: simplify command expressions

Use the show_tool_names() function to build lists of all
the built-in tools supported by difftool and mergetool.
This frees us from needing to update the documentation
whenever a new tool is added.

Signed-off-by: David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Signed-off-by: Thomas Ackermann <th.acker@arcor.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Some users or projects prefer different algorithms over others, e.g.
patience over myers or similar. However, specifying appropriate
argument every time diff is to be used is impractical. Moreover,
creating an alias doesn't play nicely with other tools based on diff
(git-show for instance). Hence, a configuration variable which is able
to set specific algorithm is needed. For now, these four values are
accepted: 'myers' (which has the same effect as not setting the config
variable at all), 'minimal', 'patience' and 'histogram'.

Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

The line that happens to begin with indent followed by "3. " was
interpreted as if it was an enumerated list; just wrap the lines
differently to work it around for now.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Introduce a diff.submodule configuration variable corresponding to the
'--submodule' command-line option of 'git diff'.

Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

19299a8 (Documentation: Move diff.<driver>.* from config.txt to
diff-config.txt, 2011-04-07) moved the diff configuration options to
diff-config.txt, but forgot about diff.wordRegex, which was left
behind in config.txt.  Fix this.

Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>