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diff --git a/Documentation/diff-options.txt b/Documentation/diff-options.txt index 45885bbbb2..813a7b11b9 100644 --- a/Documentation/diff-options.txt +++ b/Documentation/diff-options.txt @@ -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". @@ -40,6 +36,9 @@ endif::git-format-patch[] --patch-with-raw:: Synonym for "-p --raw". +--patience:: + Generate a diff using the "patience diff" algorithm. + --stat[=width[,name-width]]:: Generate a diffstat. You can override the default output width for 80-column terminal by "--stat=width". @@ -65,6 +64,9 @@ endif::git-format-patch[] can be set with "--dirstat=limit". Changes in a child directory is not counted for the parent directory, unless "--cumulative" is used. +--dirstat-by-file[=limit]:: + Same as --dirstat, but counts changed files instead of lines. + --summary:: Output a condensed summary of extended header information such as creations, renames and mode changes. @@ -92,8 +94,22 @@ endif::git-format-patch[] Turn off colored diff, even when the configuration file gives the default to color output. ---color-words:: - Show colored word diff, i.e. color words which have changed. +--color-words[=<regex>]:: + Show colored word diff, i.e., color words which have changed. + By default, words are separated by whitespace. ++ +When a <regex> is specified, 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 +expression to make sure that it matches all non-whitespace characters. +A match that contains a newline is silently truncated(!) at the +newline. ++ +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. --no-renames:: Turn off rename detection, even when the configuration @@ -106,9 +122,9 @@ endif::git-format-patch[] --exit-code. --full-index:: - Instead of the first handful characters, show full - object name of pre- and post-image blob on the "index" - line when generating a patch format output. + Instead of the first handful of characters, show the full + pre- and post-image blob object names on the "index" + line when generating patch format output. --binary:: In addition to --full-index, output "binary diff" that @@ -117,7 +133,7 @@ endif::git-format-patch[] --abbrev[=<n>]:: Instead of showing the full 40-byte hexadecimal object name in diff-raw format output and diff-tree header - lines, show only handful hexdigits prefix. This is + lines, show only a partial prefix. This is independent of --full-index option above, which controls the diff-patch output format. Non default number of digits can be specified with --abbrev=<n>. @@ -187,30 +203,28 @@ 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". +--inter-hunk-context=<lines>:: + Show the context between diff hunks, up to the specified number + of lines, thereby fusing hunks that are close to each other. --exit-code:: Make the program exit with codes similar to diff(1). |