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diff --git a/Documentation/diff-options.txt b/Documentation/diff-options.txt index 2d77a19626..89cc0f48de 100644 --- a/Documentation/diff-options.txt +++ b/Documentation/diff-options.txt @@ -192,10 +192,9 @@ ifndef::git-log[] 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, -and backslash characters replaced with `\t`, `\n`, `\"`, and `\\`, -respectively, and the pathname will be enclosed in double quotes if -any of those replacements occurred. +Without this option, pathnames with "unusual" characters are quoted as +explained for the configuration variable `core.quotePath` (see +linkgit:git-config[1]). --name-only:: Show only names of changed files. @@ -308,6 +307,8 @@ ifndef::git-format-patch[] lines are highlighted. E.g. `--ws-error-highlight=new,old` highlights whitespace errors on both deleted and added lines. `all` can be used as a short-hand for `old,new,context`. + The `diff.wsErrorHighlight` configuration variable can be + used to specify the default behaviour. endif::git-format-patch[] @@ -464,11 +465,41 @@ information. endif::git-format-patch[] -O<orderfile>:: - Output the patch in the order specified in the - <orderfile>, which has one shell glob pattern per line. + Control the order in which files appear in the output. This overrides the `diff.orderFile` configuration variable (see linkgit:git-config[1]). To cancel `diff.orderFile`, use `-O/dev/null`. ++ +The output order is determined by the order of glob patterns in +<orderfile>. +All files with pathnames that match the first pattern are output +first, all files with pathnames that match the second pattern (but not +the first) are output next, and so on. +All files with pathnames that do not match any pattern are output +last, as if there was an implicit match-all pattern at the end of the +file. +If multiple pathnames have the same rank (they match the same pattern +but no earlier patterns), their output order relative to each other is +the normal order. ++ +<orderfile> is parsed as follows: ++ +-- + - Blank lines are ignored, so they can be used as separators for + readability. + + - Lines starting with a hash ("`#`") are ignored, so they can be used + for comments. Add a backslash ("`\`") to the beginning of the + pattern if it starts with a hash. + + - Each other line contains a single pattern. +-- ++ +Patterns have the same syntax and semantics as patterns used for +fnmantch(3) without the FNM_PATHNAME flag, except a pathname also +matches a pattern if removing any number of the final pathname +components matches the pattern. For example, the pattern "`foo*bar`" +matches "`fooasdfbar`" and "`foo/bar/baz/asdf`" but not "`foobarx`". ifndef::git-format-patch[] -R:: @@ -509,6 +540,8 @@ endif::git-format-patch[] --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. + Defaults to `diff.interHunkContext` or 0 if the config option + is unset. -W:: --function-context:: @@ -570,5 +603,13 @@ endif::git-format-patch[] --line-prefix=<prefix>:: Prepend an additional prefix to every line of output. +--ita-invisible-in-index:: + By default entries added by "git add -N" appear as an existing + empty file in "git diff" and a new file in "git diff --cached". + This option makes the entry appear as a new file in "git diff" + and non-existent in "git diff --cached". This option could be + reverted with `--ita-visible-in-index`. Both options are + experimental and could be removed in future. + For more detailed explanation on these common options, see also linkgit:gitdiffcore[7]. |