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authorLibravatar Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>2011-04-07 00:16:49 +0530
committerLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2011-04-06 15:19:53 -0700
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Documentation: Move diff.<driver>.* from config.txt to diff-config.txt
Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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+diff.autorefreshindex::
+ When using 'git diff' to compare with work tree
+ files, do not consider stat-only change as changed.
+ Instead, silently run `git update-index --refresh` to
+ update the cached stat information for paths whose
+ contents in the work tree match the contents in the
+ index. This option defaults to true. Note that this
+ affects only 'git diff' Porcelain, and not lower level
+ 'diff' commands such as 'git diff-files'.
+
+diff.external::
+ If this config variable is set, diff generation is not
+ performed using the internal diff machinery, but using the
+ given command. Can be overridden with the `GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF'
+ environment variable. The command is called with parameters
+ as described under "git Diffs" in linkgit:git[1]. Note: if
+ you want to use an external diff program only on a subset of
+ your files, you might want to use linkgit:gitattributes[5] instead.
+
+diff.ignoreSubmodules::
+ Sets the default value of --ignore-submodules. Note that this
+ affects only 'git diff' Porcelain, and not lower level 'diff'
+ commands such as 'git diff-files'. 'git checkout' also honors
+ this setting when reporting uncommitted changes.
+
+diff.mnemonicprefix::
+ If set, 'git diff' uses a prefix pair that is different from the
+ standard "a/" and "b/" depending on what is being compared. When
+ this configuration is in effect, reverse diff output also swaps
+ the order of the prefixes:
+`git diff`;;
+ compares the (i)ndex and the (w)ork tree;
+`git diff HEAD`;;
+ compares a (c)ommit and the (w)ork tree;
+`git diff --cached`;;
+ compares a (c)ommit and the (i)ndex;
+`git diff HEAD:file1 file2`;;
+ compares an (o)bject and a (w)ork tree entity;
+`git diff --no-index a b`;;
+ compares two non-git things (1) and (2).
+
+diff.noprefix::
+ If set, 'git diff' does not show any source or destination prefix.
+
+diff.renameLimit::
+ The number of files to consider when performing the copy/rename
+ detection; equivalent to the 'git diff' option '-l'.
+
+diff.renames::
+ Tells git to detect renames. If set to any boolean value, it
+ will enable basic rename detection. If set to "copies" or
+ "copy", it will detect copies, as well.
+
+diff.suppressBlankEmpty::
+ A boolean to inhibit the standard behavior of printing a space
+ before each empty output line. Defaults to false.
+
+diff.tool::
+ Controls which diff tool is used. `diff.tool` overrides
+ `merge.tool` when used by linkgit:git-difftool[1] and has
+ the same valid values as `merge.tool` minus "tortoisemerge"
+ and plus "kompare".