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diff --git a/Documentation/config/diff.txt b/Documentation/config/diff.txt index e48bb987d7..2d3331f55c 100644 --- a/Documentation/config/diff.txt +++ b/Documentation/config/diff.txt @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ diff.autoRefreshIndex:: diff.dirstat:: A comma separated list of `--dirstat` parameters specifying the - default behavior of the `--dirstat` option to linkgit:git-diff[1]` + default behavior of the `--dirstat` option to linkgit:git-diff[1] and friends. The defaults can be overridden on the command line (using `--dirstat=<param1,param2,...>`). The fallback defaults (when not changed by `diff.dirstat`) are `changes,noncumulative,3`. @@ -73,17 +73,20 @@ diff.external:: 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. + 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 + commands such as 'git diff-files'. 'git checkout' + and 'git switch' also honor this setting when reporting uncommitted changes. Setting it to 'all' disables the submodule summary normally shown by 'git commit' and 'git status' when `status.submoduleSummary` is set unless it is overridden by using the --ignore-submodules command-line option. The 'git submodule' commands are not affected by this setting. + By default this is set to untracked so that any untracked + submodules are ignored. diff.mnemonicPrefix:: If set, 'git diff' uses a prefix pair that is different from the @@ -104,6 +107,10 @@ 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. @@ -188,7 +195,7 @@ diff.guitool:: include::../mergetools-diff.txt[] diff.indentHeuristic:: - Set this option to `true` to enable experimental heuristics + Set this option to `false` to disable the default heuristics that shift diff hunk boundaries to make patches easier to read. diff.algorithm:: |