Merge branch 'maint'

* maint:
  http: treat config options sslCAPath and sslCAInfo as paths
  Documentation/diff: give --word-diff-regex=. example
  filter-branch: deal with object name vs. pathname ambiguity in tree-filter
  check-ignore: correct documentation about output
  git-p4: clean up after p4 submit failure
  git-p4: work with a detached head
  git-p4: add option to system() to return subshell status
  git-p4: add failing test for submit from detached head
  remote-http(s): support SOCKS proxies
  t5813: avoid creating urls that break on cygwin
  Escape Git's exec path in contrib/rerere-train.sh script
  allow hooks to ignore their standard input stream
  rebase-i-exec: Allow space in SHELL_PATH
  Documentation: make environment variable formatting more consistent

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diff --git a/Documentation/diff-options.txt b/Documentation/diff-options.txt
index d56ca90998..306b7e3604 100644
--- a/Documentation/diff-options.txt
+++ b/Documentation/diff-options.txt
@@ -267,6 +267,9 @@ expression to make sure that it matches all non-whitespace characters.
 A match that contains a newline is silently truncated(!) at the
 newline.
 +
+For example, `--word-diff-regex=.` will treat each character as a word
+and, correspondingly, show differences character by character.
++
 The regex can also be set via a diff driver or configuration option, see
 linkgit:gitattributes[1] or linkgit:git-config[1].  Giving it explicitly
 overrides any diff driver or configuration setting.  Diff drivers