Documentation: Allow custom diff tools to be specified in 'diff.tool'

Apart from the list of "valid values", 'diff.tool' can take any value,
provided there is a corresponding 'difftool.<tool>.cmd' option.  Also,
describe this option just before the 'difftool.*' options.

Helped-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Ramkumar Ramachandra 2011-04-07 00:16:50 +05:30 committed by Junio C Hamano
parent 90b94c26f7
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@ -55,12 +55,6 @@ diff.suppressBlankEmpty::
A boolean to inhibit the standard behavior of printing a space
before each empty output line. Defaults to false.
diff.tool::
Controls which diff tool is used. `diff.tool` overrides
`merge.tool` when used by linkgit:git-difftool[1] and has
the same valid values as `merge.tool` minus "tortoisemerge"
and plus "kompare".
diff.<driver>.command::
The custom diff driver command. See linkgit:gitattributes[5]
for details.
@ -88,3 +82,11 @@ diff.<driver>.wordregex::
diff.<driver>.cachetextconv::
Set this option to true to make the diff driver cache the text
conversion outputs. See linkgit:gitattributes[5] for details.
diff.tool::
The diff tool to be used by linkgit:git-difftool[1]. This
option overrides `merge.tool`, and has the same valid built-in
values as `merge.tool` minus "tortoisemerge" and plus
"kompare". Any other value is treated as a custom diff tool,
and there must be a corresponding `difftool.<tool>.cmd`
option.