diff options
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/diff-options.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/diff-options.txt | 23 |
1 files changed, 19 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/diff-options.txt b/Documentation/diff-options.txt index c7ed946357..659de6f123 100644 --- a/Documentation/diff-options.txt +++ b/Documentation/diff-options.txt @@ -224,10 +224,14 @@ endif::git-format-patch[] ifndef::git-format-patch[] --check:: - Warn if changes introduce trailing whitespace - or an indent that uses a space before a tab. Exits with - non-zero status if problems are found. Not compatible with - --exit-code. + Warn if changes introduce whitespace errors. What are + considered whitespace errors is controlled by `core.whitespace` + configuration. By default, trailing whitespaces (including + lines that solely consist of whitespaces) and a space character + that is immediately followed by a tab character inside the + initial indent of the line are considered whitespace errors. + Exits with non-zero status if problems are found. Not compatible + with --exit-code. endif::git-format-patch[] --full-index:: @@ -412,6 +416,17 @@ endif::git-format-patch[] --no-ext-diff:: Disallow external diff drivers. +--textconv:: +--no-textconv:: + Allow (or disallow) external text conversion filters to be run + when comparing binary files. See linkgit:gitattributes[5] for + details. Because textconv filters are typically a one-way + conversion, the resulting diff is suitable for human + consumption, but cannot be applied. For this reason, textconv + filters are enabled by default only for linkgit:git-diff[1] and + linkgit:git-log[1], but not for linkgit:git-format-patch[1] or + diff plumbing commands. + --ignore-submodules[=<when>]:: Ignore changes to submodules in the diff generation. <when> can be either "none", "untracked", "dirty" or "all", which is the default |