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diff --git a/Documentation/diff-options.txt b/Documentation/diff-options.txt index 8707d0e740..eecedaab6e 100644 --- a/Documentation/diff-options.txt +++ b/Documentation/diff-options.txt @@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ endif::git-format-patch[] ifndef::git-format-patch[] -p:: -u:: +--patch:: Generate patch (see section on generating patches). {git-diff? This is the default.} endif::git-format-patch[] @@ -94,8 +95,8 @@ Also, when `--raw` or `--numstat` has been given, do not munge pathnames and use NULs as output field terminators. endif::git-log[] ifndef::git-log[] - When `--raw` or `--numstat` has been given, do not munge - pathnames and use NULs as output field terminators. + When `--raw`, `--numstat`, `--name-only` or `--name-status` has been + given, do not munge pathnames and use NULs as output field terminators. endif::git-log[] + Without this option, each pathname output will have TAB, LF, double quotes, @@ -117,18 +118,48 @@ any of those replacements occurred. option and lists the commits in that commit range like the 'summary' option of linkgit:git-submodule[1] does. ---color:: +--color[=<when>]:: Show colored diff. + The value must be always (the default), never, or auto. --no-color:: Turn off colored diff, even when the configuration file gives the default to color output. + Same as `--color=never`. ---color-words[=<regex>]:: - Show colored word diff, i.e., color words which have changed. - By default, words are separated by whitespace. +--word-diff[=<mode>]:: + Show a word diff, using the <mode> to delimit changed words. + By default, words are delimited by whitespace; see + `--word-diff-regex` below. The <mode> defaults to 'plain', and + must be one of: ++ +-- +color:: + Highlight changed words using only colors. Implies `--color`. +plain:: + Show words as `[-removed-]` and `{+added+}`. Makes no + attempts to escape the delimiters if they appear in the input, + so the output may be ambiguous. +porcelain:: + Use a special line-based format intended for script + consumption. Added/removed/unchanged runs are printed in the + usual unified diff format, starting with a `+`/`-`/` ` + character at the beginning of the line and extending to the + end of the line. Newlines in the input are represented by a + tilde `~` on a line of its own. +none:: + Disable word diff again. +-- ++ +Note that despite the name of the first mode, color is used to +highlight the changed parts in all modes if enabled. + +--word-diff-regex=<regex>:: + Use <regex> to decide what a word is, instead of considering + runs of non-whitespace to be a word. Also implies + `--word-diff` unless it was already enabled. + -When a <regex> is specified, every non-overlapping match of the +Every non-overlapping match of the <regex> is considered a word. Anything between these matches is considered whitespace and ignored(!) for the purposes of finding differences. You may want to append `|[^[:space:]]` to your regular @@ -140,6 +171,10 @@ The regex can also be set via a diff driver or configuration option, see linkgit:gitattributes[1] or linkgit:git-config[1]. Giving it explicitly overrides any diff driver or configuration setting. Diff drivers override configuration settings. + +--color-words[=<regex>]:: + Equivalent to `--word-diff=color` plus (if a regex was + specified) `--word-diff-regex=<regex>`. endif::git-format-patch[] --no-renames:: @@ -171,14 +206,46 @@ endif::git-format-patch[] the diff-patch output format. Non default number of digits can be specified with `--abbrev=<n>`. --B:: - Break complete rewrite changes into pairs of delete and create. - --M:: +-B[<n>][/<m>]:: + Break complete rewrite changes into pairs of delete and + create. This serves two purposes: ++ +It affects the way a change that amounts to a total rewrite of a file +not as a series of deletion and insertion mixed together with a very +few lines that happen to match textually as the context, but as a +single deletion of everything old followed by a single insertion of +everything new, and the number `m` controls this aspect of the -B +option (defaults to 60%). `-B/70%` specifies that less than 30% of the +original should remain in the result for git to consider it a total +rewrite (i.e. otherwise the resulting patch will be a series of +deletion and insertion mixed together with context lines). ++ +When used with -M, a totally-rewritten file is also considered as the +source of a rename (usually -M only considers a file that disappeared +as the source of a rename), and the number `n` controls this aspect of +the -B option (defaults to 50%). `-B20%` specifies that a change with +addition and deletion compared to 20% or more of the file's size are +eligible for being picked up as a possible source of a rename to +another file. + +-M[<n>]:: +ifndef::git-log[] Detect renames. +endif::git-log[] +ifdef::git-log[] + If generating diffs, detect and report renames for each commit. + For following files across renames while traversing history, see + `--follow`. +endif::git-log[] + If `n` is specified, it is a is a threshold on the similarity + index (i.e. amount of addition/deletions compared to the + file's size). For example, `-M90%` means git should consider a + delete/add pair to be a rename if more than 90% of the file + hasn't changed. --C:: +-C[<n>]:: Detect copies as well as renames. See also `--find-copies-harder`. + If `n` is specified, it has the same meaning as for `-M<n>`. ifndef::git-format-patch[] --diff-filter=[ACDMRTUXB*]:: @@ -286,8 +353,14 @@ endif::git-format-patch[] --no-ext-diff:: Disallow external diff drivers. ---ignore-submodules:: - Ignore changes to submodules in the diff generation. +--ignore-submodules[=<when>]:: + Ignore changes to submodules in the diff generation. <when> can be + either "untracked", "dirty" or "all", which is the default. When + "untracked" is used submodules are not considered dirty when they only + contain untracked content (but they are still scanned for modified + content). Using "dirty" ignores all changes to the work tree of submodules, + only changes to the commits stored in the superproject are shown (this was + the behavior until 1.7.0). Using "all" hides all changes to submodules. --src-prefix=<prefix>:: Show the given source prefix instead of "a/". |