diff: document behavior of relative diff.orderFile

Document that a relative pathname for diff.orderFile is interpreted as
relative to the top-level work directory.

Signed-off-by: Richard Hansen <hansenr@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

diff --git a/Documentation/diff-config.txt b/Documentation/diff-config.txt
index 58f4bd6afa12240f9e416860ac12d82776815ee9..bf955852bab40d044eb3507ecfd6332f56e5f025 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/diff-config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/diff-config.txt
@@ -101,6 +101,8 @@ diff.noprefix::
 diff.orderFile::
        File indicating how to order files within a diff, using
        one shell glob pattern per line.
+       If `diff.orderFile` is a relative pathname, it is treated as
+       relative to the top of the working tree.
        Can be overridden by the '-O' option to linkgit:git-diff[1].
 
 diff.renameLimit::