Re: [PATCH v2 4/4] add-patch: add diff.context command line overrides

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"Leon Michalak via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> diff --git a/Documentation/diff-context-options.adoc b/Documentation/diff-context-options.adoc
> new file mode 100644
> index 000000000000..e161260358ff
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/Documentation/diff-context-options.adoc
> @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
> +`-U<n>`::
> +`--unified=<n>`::
> +	Generate diffs with _<n>_ lines of context. Defaults to `diff.context`
> +	or 3 if the config option is unset.
> +
> +`--inter-hunk-context=<n>`::
> +	Show the context between diff hunks, up to the specified _<number>_
> +	of lines, thereby fusing hunks that are close to each other.
> +	Defaults to `diff.interHunkContext` or 0 if the config option
> +	is unset.

It might not be trivial to do but I wonder if we cannot do better
than this to share more of the same text across manual pages.  These
two being options understood by `git diff`, we certainly have an
existing description for them, no?

Other than that, looking good to me.

Thanks.




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