Subject: [PATCH 2/2] diff: document the pattern format for diff.orderFile

From: Richard Hansen <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2017 19:40:31 -0500

Document the format of the patterns used for the diff.orderFile
setting and diff's '-O' option by referring the reader to the
gitignore[5] page.

Signed-off-by: Richard Hansen <[email-masked]>
---
 Documentation/diff-config.txt  | 3 ++-
 Documentation/diff-options.txt | 3 ++-
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/diff-config.txt b/Documentation/diff-config.txt
index 875212045..a35ecdd6b 100644
--- a/Documentation/diff-config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/diff-config.txt
@@ -100,7 +100,8 @@ diff.noprefix::
 
 diff.orderFile::
 	File indicating how to order files within a diff, using
-	one shell glob pattern per line.
+	one glob pattern per line.
+	See linkgit:gitignore[5] for the pattern format.
 	If `diff.orderFile` is a relative pathname, it is treated as
 	relative to the top of the work tree.
 	Can be overridden by the '-O' option to linkgit:git-diff[1].
diff --git a/Documentation/diff-options.txt b/Documentation/diff-options.txt
index e6215c372..dc6b1af71 100644
--- a/Documentation/diff-options.txt
+++ b/Documentation/diff-options.txt
@@ -467,7 +467,8 @@ endif::git-format-patch[]
 
 -O<orderfile>::
 	Output the patch in the order specified in the
-	<orderfile>, which has one shell glob pattern per line.
+	<orderfile>, which has one glob pattern per line.
+	See linkgit:gitignore[5] for the pattern format.
 	This overrides the `diff.orderFile` configuration variable
 	(see linkgit:git-config[1]).  To cancel `diff.orderFile`,
 	use `-O/dev/null`.
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