Subject: [PATCH] doc: point to diff attribute in patch format docs

From: "Peter Oliver via GitGitGadget" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2021 18:59:09 +0000

From: Peter Oliver <[email-masked]>

>From the documentation for generating patch text with diff-related
commands, refer to the documentation for the diff attribute.

This attribute influences the way that patches are generated, but this
was previously not mentioned in e.g., the git-diff manpage.

Signed-off-by: Peter Oliver <[email-masked]>
---
    doc: point to diff attribute in patch format docs
    
    From the documentation for generating patch text with diff-related
    commands, refer to the documentation for the diff attribute.
    
    This attribute influences the way that patches are generated, but this
    was previously not mentioned in e.g., the git-diff manpage.

Published-As: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/releases/tag/pr-940%2Fmavit%2Fdiff-gitattributes-v1
Fetch-It-Via: git fetch https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git pr-940/mavit/diff-gitattributes-v1
Pull-Request: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/pull/940

 Documentation/diff-generate-patch.txt | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/diff-generate-patch.txt b/Documentation/diff-generate-patch.txt
index 2db8eacc3ec7..ec506155fc74 100644
--- a/Documentation/diff-generate-patch.txt
+++ b/Documentation/diff-generate-patch.txt
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ linkgit:git-diff-files[1]
 with the `-p` option produces patch text.
 You can customize the creation of patch text via the
 `GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF` and the `GIT_DIFF_OPTS` environment variables
-(see linkgit:git[1]).
+(see linkgit:git[1]), and the `diff` attribute (see linkgit:gitattributes[5]).
 
 What the -p option produces is slightly different from the traditional
 diff format:
@@ -74,6 +74,10 @@ separate lines indicate the old and the new mode.
       rename from b
       rename to a
 
+5.  Hunk headers mention the name of the function to which the hunk
+    applies.  See linkgit:gitattributes[5] for details of how to tailor
+    to this to specific languages.
+
 
 Combined diff format
 --------------------

base-commit: 48bf2fa8bad054d66bd79c6ba903c89c704201f7
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