doc: lei blob+rediff+p2q: add notes about git directory

[public-inbox.git] / Documentation / lei-rediff.pod

diff --git a/Documentation/lei-rediff.pod b/Documentation/lei-rediff.pod
index c7db6c1e20b66dc8124fa06f5ad352270585a035..f34e946ffe5267919e19db0545ecc0c5c2617ea4 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/lei-rediff.pod
+++ b/Documentation/lei-rediff.pod
@@ -15,10 +15,15 @@ the specified L<git-diff(1)> options.  This is useful if you want to
 change the display of the original patch (e.g., increasing context,
 coloring moved lines differently, or using an external diff viewer).
 
 change the display of the original patch (e.g., increasing context,
 coloring moved lines differently, or using an external diff viewer).
 

+It relies on the contents of the .git directory of your current
+project working tree.  In other words, it works anywhere
+L<git-am(1)> works.  Otherwise, C<--git-dir=> may be specified
+any number of times to add repositories to build blob data from.
+

 =head1 OPTIONS
 
 =head1 OPTIONS
 

-In addition to many L<git-diff(1)>, the following options are
-supported.
+In addition to many L<git-diff(1)> options (e.g. C<-W>, C<-w>,
+C<-U $LINES>) the following options are supported:

 
 =over
 
 
 =over
 


@@ -27,15 +32,29 @@ supported.
 Read message from stdin.  This is implicit if no arguments are given
 and stdin is a pipe or regular file.
 
 Read message from stdin.  This is implicit if no arguments are given
 and stdin is a pipe or regular file.
 

+For users of text editors and pagers capable of piping its
+buffer to arbitrary commands, it is useful to pipe a patch email
+to C<lei rediff> before piping it to L<git-am(1)>.  The output
+of C<lei rediff> is compatible with C<git am> if its input was a
+patch email.
+

 =item --git-dir=DIR
 
 Specify an additional .git/ directory to scan.  This option may be
 given multiple times.
 
 =item --git-dir=DIR
 
 Specify an additional .git/ directory to scan.  This option may be
 given multiple times.
 

+Default: the output of C<git rev-parse --git-dir>
+

 =item --no-cwd
 
 Do not look in the git repository of the current working directory.
 
 =item --no-cwd
 
 Do not look in the git repository of the current working directory.
 

+=item -q
+
+=item --quiet
+
+Suppress progress output.
+

 =item -v
 
 =item --verbose
 =item -v
 
 =item --verbose