From: Simon Ruderich <simon@ruderich.org>
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2017 10:07:12 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: gitconfig: clarify diff commands
X-Git-Url: https://ruderich.org/simon/gitweb/?p=config%2Fdotfiles.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=cd16f7b634107cfee3150314986040558690fa46

gitconfig: clarify diff commands
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diff --git a/gitconfig.in b/gitconfig.in
index 5058769..846f013 100644
--- a/gitconfig.in
+++ b/gitconfig.in
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Global Git configuration file.
 
-# Copyright (C) 2011-2015  Simon Ruderich
+# Copyright (C) 2011-2017  Simon Ruderich
 #
 # This file is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
 # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
@@ -189,15 +189,14 @@
 
 # Allow diffing of some binary files.
 #
-# "sh -c '..' -" is used when the programs require additional arguments. The
-# last "-" is argv[0] which is passed to sh, the real arguments are passed
-# after "-" by git.
+# "sh -c '..' ARGV0" is used when the programs require additional arguments
+# which are passed after ARGV0 by git.
 [diff "gzip"]
 	textconv = gzip -d -c
 [diff "pdf"]
-	textconv = sh -c 'exec pdftotext "$@" -' -
+	textconv = sh -c 'exec pdftotext "$@" -' ARGV0
 [diff "sqlite"]
-	textconv = sh -c 'exec sqlite3 "$@" .dump' -
+	textconv = sh -c 'exec sqlite3 "$@" .dump' ARGV0
 
 [log]
 	# Display branches/tag names in log (same as log's --decorate option).