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docs: document --textconv diff option

This has been there since textconv existed, but was never
documented. There is some overlap with what's in
gitattributes(5), but it's important to warn in both places
that textconv diffs probably can't be applied.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Jeff King 14 years ago committed by Junio C Hamano
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Documentation/diff-options.txt

@ -416,6 +416,17 @@ endif::git-format-patch[] @@ -416,6 +416,17 @@ endif::git-format-patch[]
--no-ext-diff::
Disallow external diff drivers.

--textconv::
--no-textconv::
Allow (or disallow) external text conversion filters to be run
when comparing binary files. See linkgit:gitattributes[5] for
details. Because textconv filters are typically a one-way
conversion, the resulting diff is suitable for human
consumption, but cannot be applied. For this reason, textconv
filters are enabled by default only for linkgit:git-diff[1] and
linkgit:git-log[1], but not for linkgit:git-format-patch[1] or
diff plumbing commands.

--ignore-submodules[=<when>]::
Ignore changes to submodules in the diff generation. <when> can be
either "none", "untracked", "dirty" or "all", which is the default

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