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authorLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2020-06-02 13:35:04 -0700
committerLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2020-06-02 13:35:04 -0700
commite34df9a6e591be60172e3308b429bd7d243dfce8 (patch)
tree4dadc0cddfb66b677cc4d624bdcc569ee4e55697 /Documentation
parentMerge branch 'rs/checkout-b-track-error' (diff)
parentdiff: add config option relative (diff)
downloadtgif-e34df9a6e591be60172e3308b429bd7d243dfce8.tar.xz
Merge branch 'la/diff-relative-config'
The commands in the "diff" family learned to honor "diff.relative" configuration variable. * la/diff-relative-config: diff: add config option relative
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/config/diff.txt4
-rw-r--r--Documentation/diff-options.txt5
2 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/config/diff.txt b/Documentation/config/diff.txt
index ff09f1cf73..c3ae136eba 100644
--- a/Documentation/config/diff.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config/diff.txt
@@ -105,6 +105,10 @@ diff.mnemonicPrefix::
diff.noprefix::
If set, 'git diff' does not show any source or destination prefix.
+diff.relative::
+ If set to 'true', 'git diff' does not show changes outside of the directory
+ and show pathnames relative to the current directory.
+
diff.orderFile::
File indicating how to order files within a diff.
See the '-O' option to linkgit:git-diff[1] for details.
diff --git a/Documentation/diff-options.txt b/Documentation/diff-options.txt
index bb31f0c42b..7987d72b02 100644
--- a/Documentation/diff-options.txt
+++ b/Documentation/diff-options.txt
@@ -643,15 +643,18 @@ ifndef::git-format-patch[]
-R::
Swap two inputs; that is, show differences from index or
on-disk file to tree contents.
+endif::git-format-patch[]
--relative[=<path>]::
+--no-relative::
When run from a subdirectory of the project, it can be
told to exclude changes outside the directory and show
pathnames relative to it with this option. When you are
not in a subdirectory (e.g. in a bare repository), you
can name which subdirectory to make the output relative
to by giving a <path> as an argument.
-endif::git-format-patch[]
+ `--no-relative` can be used to countermand both `diff.relative` config
+ option and previous `--relative`.
-a::
--text::