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authorLibravatar jidanni@jidanni.org <jidanni@jidanni.org>2008-12-29 15:03:17 +0800
committerLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2008-12-29 01:08:02 -0800
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parentgitweb: Fix export check in git_get_projects_list (diff)
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Documentation/diff-options.txt: unify options
Instead of listing short option (e.g. "-U<n>") as a shorthand for its longer counterpart (e.g. "--unified=<n>"), list the synonyms together. It saves one indirection to find what the reader wants. Signed-off-by: jidanni <jidanni@jidanni.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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@@ -19,16 +19,12 @@ endif::git-format-patch[]
ifndef::git-format-patch[]
-p::
+-u::
Generate patch (see section on generating patches).
{git-diff? This is the default.}
endif::git-format-patch[]
--u::
- Synonym for "-p".
-
-U<n>::
- Shorthand for "--unified=<n>".
-
--unified=<n>::
Generate diffs with <n> lines of context instead of
the usual three. Implies "-p".
@@ -190,31 +186,25 @@ endif::git-format-patch[]
can name which subdirectory to make the output relative
to by giving a <path> as an argument.
+-a::
--text::
Treat all files as text.
--a::
- Shorthand for "--text".
-
--ignore-space-at-eol::
Ignore changes in whitespace at EOL.
+-b::
--ignore-space-change::
Ignore changes in amount of whitespace. This ignores whitespace
at line end, and considers all other sequences of one or
more whitespace characters to be equivalent.
--b::
- Shorthand for "--ignore-space-change".
-
+-w::
--ignore-all-space::
Ignore whitespace when comparing lines. This ignores
differences even if one line has whitespace where the other
line has none.
--w::
- Shorthand for "--ignore-all-space".
-
--exit-code::
Make the program exit with codes similar to diff(1).
That is, it exits with 1 if there were differences and