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@@ -36,11 +36,21 @@ endif::git-format-patch[]
-U<n>::
--unified=<n>::
Generate diffs with <n> lines of context instead of
- the usual three.
+ the usual three. Implies `--patch`.
ifndef::git-format-patch[]
Implies `-p`.
endif::git-format-patch[]
+--output=<file>::
+ Output to a specific file instead of stdout.
+
+--output-indicator-new=<char>::
+--output-indicator-old=<char>::
+--output-indicator-context=<char>::
+ Specify the character used to indicate new, old or context
+ lines in the generated patch. Normally they are '+', '-' and
+ ' ' respectively.
+
ifndef::git-format-patch[]
--raw::
ifndef::git-log[]
@@ -148,6 +158,7 @@ These parameters can also be set individually with `--stat-width=<width>`,
number of modified files, as well as number of added and deleted
lines.
+-X[<param1,param2,...>]::
--dirstat[=<param1,param2,...>]::
Output the distribution of relative amount of changes for each
sub-directory. The behavior of `--dirstat` can be customized by
@@ -192,6 +203,12 @@ directories with less than 10% of the total amount of changed files,
and accumulating child directory counts in the parent directories:
`--dirstat=files,10,cumulative`.
+--cumulative::
+ Synonym for --dirstat=cumulative
+
+--dirstat-by-file[=<param1,param2>...]::
+ Synonym for --dirstat=files,param1,param2...
+
--summary::
Output a condensed summary of extended header information
such as creations, renames and mode changes.
@@ -276,17 +293,58 @@ plain::
that are added somewhere else in the diff. This mode picks up any
moved line, but it is not very useful in a review to determine
if a block of code was moved without permutation.
-zebra::
+blocks::
Blocks of moved text of at least 20 alphanumeric characters
are detected greedily. The detected blocks are
- painted using either the 'color.diff.{old,new}Moved' color or
+ painted using either the 'color.diff.{old,new}Moved' color.
+ Adjacent blocks cannot be told apart.
+zebra::
+ Blocks of moved text are detected as in 'blocks' mode. The blocks
+ are painted using either the 'color.diff.{old,new}Moved' color or
'color.diff.{old,new}MovedAlternative'. The change between
the two colors indicates that a new block was detected.
-dimmed_zebra::
+dimmed-zebra::
Similar to 'zebra', but additional dimming of uninteresting parts
of moved code is performed. The bordering lines of two adjacent
blocks are considered interesting, the rest is uninteresting.
+ `dimmed_zebra` is a deprecated synonym.
+--
+
+--no-color-moved::
+ Turn off move detection. This can be used to override configuration
+ settings. It is the same as `--color-moved=no`.
+
+--color-moved-ws=<modes>::
+ This configures how whitespace is ignored when performing the
+ move detection for `--color-moved`.
+ifdef::git-diff[]
+ It can be set by the `diff.colorMovedWS` configuration setting.
+endif::git-diff[]
+ These modes can be given as a comma separated list:
++
--
+no::
+ Do not ignore whitespace when performing move detection.
+ignore-space-at-eol::
+ Ignore changes in whitespace at EOL.
+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.
+ignore-all-space::
+ Ignore whitespace when comparing lines. This ignores differences
+ even if one line has whitespace where the other line has none.
+allow-indentation-change::
+ Initially ignore any whitespace in the move detection, then
+ group the moved code blocks only into a block if the change in
+ whitespace is the same per line. This is incompatible with the
+ other modes.
+--
+
+--no-color-moved-ws::
+ Do not ignore whitespace when performing move detection. This can be
+ used to override configuration settings. It is the same as
+ `--color-moved-ws=no`.
--word-diff[=<mode>]::
Show a word diff, using the <mode> to delimit changed words.
@@ -345,6 +403,9 @@ endif::git-format-patch[]
Turn off rename detection, even when the configuration
file gives the default to do so.
+--[no-]rename-empty::
+ Whether to use empty blobs as rename source.
+
ifndef::git-format-patch[]
--check::
Warn if changes introduce conflict markers or whitespace errors.
@@ -375,7 +436,7 @@ endif::git-format-patch[]
--binary::
In addition to `--full-index`, output a binary diff that
- can be applied with `git-apply`.
+ can be applied with `git-apply`. Implies `--patch`.
--abbrev[=<n>]::
Instead of showing the full 40-byte hexadecimal object
@@ -494,6 +555,8 @@ struct), and want to know the history of that block since it first
came into being: use the feature iteratively to feed the interesting
block in the preimage back into `-S`, and keep going until you get the
very first version of the block.
++
+Binary files are searched as well.
-G<regex>::
Look for differences whose patch text contains added/removed
@@ -513,6 +576,9 @@ While `git log -G"regexec\(regexp"` will show this commit, `git log
-S"regexec\(regexp" --pickaxe-regex` will not (because the number of
occurrences of that string did not change).
+
+Unless `--text` is supplied patches of binary files without a textconv
+filter will be ignored.
++
See the 'pickaxe' entry in linkgit:gitdiffcore[7] for more
information.