1 // Please don't remove this comment as asciidoc behaves badly when
2 // the first non-empty line is ifdef/ifndef. The symptom is that
3 // without this comment the <git-diff-core> attribute conditionally
4 // defined below ends up being defined unconditionally.
5 // Last checked with asciidoc 7.0.2.
7 ifndef::git-format-patch[]
13 endif::git-format-patch[]
15 ifdef::git-format-patch[]
17 Generate patches without diffstat.
18 endif::git-format-patch[]
20 ifndef::git-format-patch[]
22 Generate patch (see section on generating patches).
23 {git-diff? This is the default.}
24 endif::git-format-patch[]
30 Shorthand for "--unified=<n>".
33 Generate diffs with <n> lines of context instead of
34 the usual three. Implies "-p".
37 Generate the raw format.
38 {git-diff-core? This is the default.}
41 Synonym for "-p --raw".
43 --stat[=width[,name-width]]::
44 Generate a diffstat. You can override the default
45 output width for 80-column terminal by "--stat=width".
46 The width of the filename part can be controlled by
47 giving another width to it separated by a comma.
50 Similar to \--stat, but shows number of added and
51 deleted lines in decimal notation and pathname without
52 abbreviation, to make it more machine friendly. For
53 binary files, outputs two `-` instead of saying
57 Output only the last line of the --stat format containing total
58 number of modified files, as well as number of added and deleted
62 Output the distribution of relative amount of changes (number of lines added or
63 removed) for each sub-directory. Directories with changes below
64 a cut-off percent (3% by default) are not shown. The cut-off percent
65 can be set with "--dirstat=limit". Changes in a child directory is not
66 counted for the parent directory, unless "--cumulative" is used.
68 --dirstat-by-file[=limit]::
69 Same as --dirstat, but counts changed files instead of lines.
72 Output a condensed summary of extended header information
73 such as creations, renames and mode changes.
76 Synonym for "-p --stat".
77 {git-format-patch? This is the default.}
80 NUL-line termination on output. This affects the --raw
81 output field terminator. Also output from commands such
82 as "git-log" will be delimited with NUL between commits.
85 Show only names of changed files.
88 Show only names and status of changed files. See the description
89 of the `--diff-filter` option on what the status letters mean.
95 Turn off colored diff, even when the configuration file
96 gives the default to color output.
99 Show colored word diff, i.e. color words which have changed.
102 Turn off rename detection, even when the configuration
103 file gives the default to do so.
106 Warn if changes introduce trailing whitespace
107 or an indent that uses a space before a tab. Exits with
108 non-zero status if problems are found. Not compatible with
112 Instead of the first handful of characters, show the full
113 pre- and post-image blob object names on the "index"
114 line when generating patch format output.
117 In addition to --full-index, output "binary diff" that
118 can be applied with "git apply".
121 Instead of showing the full 40-byte hexadecimal object
122 name in diff-raw format output and diff-tree header
123 lines, show only handful hexdigits prefix. This is
124 independent of --full-index option above, which controls
125 the diff-patch output format. Non default number of
126 digits can be specified with --abbrev=<n>.
129 Break complete rewrite changes into pairs of delete and create.
135 Detect copies as well as renames. See also `--find-copies-harder`.
137 --diff-filter=[ACDMRTUXB*]::
138 Select only files that are Added (`A`), Copied (`C`),
139 Deleted (`D`), Modified (`M`), Renamed (`R`), have their
140 type (i.e. regular file, symlink, submodule, ...) changed (`T`),
141 are Unmerged (`U`), are
142 Unknown (`X`), or have had their pairing Broken (`B`).
143 Any combination of the filter characters may be used.
144 When `*` (All-or-none) is added to the combination, all
145 paths are selected if there is any file that matches
146 other criteria in the comparison; if there is no file
147 that matches other criteria, nothing is selected.
149 --find-copies-harder::
150 For performance reasons, by default, `-C` option finds copies only
151 if the original file of the copy was modified in the same
152 changeset. This flag makes the command
153 inspect unmodified files as candidates for the source of
154 copy. This is a very expensive operation for large
155 projects, so use it with caution. Giving more than one
156 `-C` option has the same effect.
159 -M and -C options require O(n^2) processing time where n
160 is the number of potential rename/copy targets. This
161 option prevents rename/copy detection from running if
162 the number of rename/copy targets exceeds the specified
166 Look for differences that contain the change in <string>.
169 When -S finds a change, show all the changes in that
170 changeset, not just the files that contain the change
174 Make the <string> not a plain string but an extended POSIX
178 Output the patch in the order specified in the
179 <orderfile>, which has one shell glob pattern per line.
182 Swap two inputs; that is, show differences from index or
183 on-disk file to tree contents.
185 --relative[=<path>]::
186 When run from a subdirectory of the project, it can be
187 told to exclude changes outside the directory and show
188 pathnames relative to it with this option. When you are
189 not in a subdirectory (e.g. in a bare repository), you
190 can name which subdirectory to make the output relative
191 to by giving a <path> as an argument.
194 Treat all files as text.
197 Shorthand for "--text".
199 --ignore-space-at-eol::
200 Ignore changes in whitespace at EOL.
202 --ignore-space-change::
203 Ignore changes in amount of whitespace. This ignores whitespace
204 at line end, and considers all other sequences of one or
205 more whitespace characters to be equivalent.
208 Shorthand for "--ignore-space-change".
211 Ignore whitespace when comparing lines. This ignores
212 differences even if one line has whitespace where the other
216 Shorthand for "--ignore-all-space".
219 Make the program exit with codes similar to diff(1).
220 That is, it exits with 1 if there were differences and
221 0 means no differences.
224 Disable all output of the program. Implies --exit-code.
227 Allow an external diff helper to be executed. If you set an
228 external diff driver with linkgit:gitattributes[5], you need
229 to use this option with linkgit:git-log[1] and friends.
232 Disallow external diff drivers.
234 --ignore-submodules::
235 Ignore changes to submodules in the diff generation.
237 --src-prefix=<prefix>::
238 Show the given source prefix instead of "a/".
240 --dst-prefix=<prefix>::
241 Show the given destination prefix instead of "b/".
244 Do not show any source or destination prefix.
246 For more detailed explanation on these common options, see also
247 linkgit:gitdiffcore[7].