Re: [Bug-vc-dwim] 15 of 20 tests failed

[Bruno Haible]

Hi Jim,

> safest is simply to unset that variable inside vc-dwim,
> at least for some code paths.  However, if you prefer to use
> an external diff program, it would be nice if vc-dwim were to
> let you do that, at least when displaying "git diff" output.
> 
> How important is it to you that vc-dwim's git diff output honors
> GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF?

Of course, once I've set GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF, I expect all tools that use git
to respect this variable for all output that they produce for me. And on the
other side, git output that is parsed by vc-dwim should be in a format that
vc-dwim understands.

Bruno
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