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@@ -36,6 +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".
@@ -91,8 +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
@@ -116,7 +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>.
@@ -159,7 +176,10 @@ endif::git-format-patch[]
number.
-S<string>::
- Look for differences that contain the change in <string>.
+ Look for differences that introduce or remove an instance of
+ <string>. Note that this is different than the string simply
+ appearing in diff output; see the 'pickaxe' entry in
+ linkgit:gitdiffcore[7] for more details.
--pickaxe-all::
When -S finds a change, show all the changes in that
@@ -205,6 +225,10 @@ endif::git-format-patch[]
differences even if one line has whitespace where the other
line has none.
+--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).
That is, it exits with 1 if there were differences and