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@@ -138,6 +138,12 @@ Your script may set up one or more of the following variables:
processing a logical chunk of input). The default function flushes
stdout.
+ - @DiffHighlight::OLD_HIGHLIGHT and @DiffHighlight::NEW_HIGHLIGHT - these
+ arrays specify the normal, highlighted, and reset colors (in that order)
+ for old/new lines. If unset, values will be retrieved by calling `git
+ config` (see "Color Config" above). Note that these should be the literal
+ color bytes (starting with an ANSI escape code), not color names.
+
The script may then feed lines, one at a time, to DiffHighlight::handle_line().
When lines are done processing, they will be fed to $line_cb. Note that
DiffHighlight may queue up many input lines (to analyze a whole hunk)