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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.dirstat::
+	A comma separated list of `--dirstat` parameters specifying the
+	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`.
+	The following parameters are available:
++
+--
+`changes`;;
+	Compute the dirstat numbers by counting the lines that have been
+	removed from the source, or added to the destination. This ignores
+	the amount of pure code movements within a file.  In other words,
+	rearranging lines in a file is not counted as much as other changes.
+	This is the default behavior when no parameter is given.
+`lines`;;
+	Compute the dirstat numbers by doing the regular line-based diff
+	analysis, and summing the removed/added line counts. (For binary
+	files, count 64-byte chunks instead, since binary files have no
+	natural concept of lines). This is a more expensive `--dirstat`
+	behavior than the `changes` behavior, but it does count rearranged
+	lines within a file as much as other changes. The resulting output
+	is consistent with what you get from the other `--*stat` options.
+`files`;;
+	Compute the dirstat numbers by counting the number of files changed.
+	Each changed file counts equally in the dirstat analysis. This is
+	the computationally cheapest `--dirstat` behavior, since it does
+	not have to look at the file contents at all.
+`cumulative`;;
+	Count changes in a child directory for the parent directory as well.
+	Note that when using `cumulative`, the sum of the percentages
+	reported may exceed 100%. The default (non-cumulative) behavior can
+	be specified with the `noncumulative` parameter.
+<limit>;;
+	An integer parameter specifies a cut-off percent (3% by default).
+	Directories contributing less than this percentage of the changes
+	are not shown in the output.
+--
++
+Example: The following will count changed files, while ignoring
+directories with less than 10% of the total amount of changed files,
+and accumulating child directory counts in the parent directories:
+`files,10,cumulative`.
+
+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.<driver>.command::
+	The custom diff driver command.  See linkgit:gitattributes[5]
+	for details.
+
+diff.<driver>.xfuncname::
+	The regular expression that the diff driver should use to
+	recognize the hunk header.  A built-in pattern may also be used.
+	See linkgit:gitattributes[5] for details.
+
+diff.<driver>.binary::
+	Set this option to true to make the diff driver treat files as
+	binary.  See linkgit:gitattributes[5] for details.
+
+diff.<driver>.textconv::
+	The command that the diff driver should call to generate the
+	text-converted version of a file.  The result of the
+	conversion is used to generate a human-readable diff.  See
+	linkgit:gitattributes[5] for details.
+
+diff.<driver>.wordregex::
+	The regular expression that the diff driver should use to
+	split words in a line.  See linkgit:gitattributes[5] for
+	details.
+
+diff.<driver>.cachetextconv::
+	Set this option to true to make the diff driver cache the text
+	conversion outputs.  See linkgit:gitattributes[5] for details.
+
+diff.tool::
+	The diff tool to be used by linkgit:git-difftool[1].  This
+	option overrides `merge.tool`, and has the same valid built-in
+	values as `merge.tool` minus "tortoisemerge" and plus
+	"kompare".  Any other value is treated as a custom diff tool,
+	and there must be a corresponding `difftool.<tool>.cmd`
+	option.