1 diff.autorefreshindex::
2 When using 'git diff' to compare with work tree
3 files, do not consider stat-only change as changed.
4 Instead, silently run `git update-index --refresh` to
5 update the cached stat information for paths whose
6 contents in the work tree match the contents in the
7 index. This option defaults to true. Note that this
8 affects only 'git diff' Porcelain, and not lower level
9 'diff' commands such as 'git diff-files'.
12 A comma separated list of `--dirstat` parameters specifying the
13 default behavior of the `--dirstat` option to linkgit:git-diff[1]`
14 and friends. The defaults can be overridden on the command line
15 (using `--dirstat=<param1,param2,...>`). The fallback defaults
16 (when not changed by `diff.dirstat`) are `changes,noncumulative,3`.
17 The following parameters are available:
21 Compute the dirstat numbers by counting the lines that have been
22 removed from the source, or added to the destination. This ignores
23 the amount of pure code movements within a file. In other words,
24 rearranging lines in a file is not counted as much as other changes.
25 This is the default behavior when no parameter is given.
27 Compute the dirstat numbers by doing the regular line-based diff
28 analysis, and summing the removed/added line counts. (For binary
29 files, count 64-byte chunks instead, since binary files have no
30 natural concept of lines). This is a more expensive `--dirstat`
31 behavior than the `changes` behavior, but it does count rearranged
32 lines within a file as much as other changes. The resulting output
33 is consistent with what you get from the other `--*stat` options.
35 Compute the dirstat numbers by counting the number of files changed.
36 Each changed file counts equally in the dirstat analysis. This is
37 the computationally cheapest `--dirstat` behavior, since it does
38 not have to look at the file contents at all.
40 Count changes in a child directory for the parent directory as well.
41 Note that when using `cumulative`, the sum of the percentages
42 reported may exceed 100%. The default (non-cumulative) behavior can
43 be specified with the `noncumulative` parameter.
45 An integer parameter specifies a cut-off percent (3% by default).
46 Directories contributing less than this percentage of the changes
47 are not shown in the output.
50 Example: The following will count changed files, while ignoring
51 directories with less than 10% of the total amount of changed files,
52 and accumulating child directory counts in the parent directories:
53 `files,10,cumulative`.
56 Limit the width of the graph part in --stat output. If set, applies
57 to all commands generating --stat output except format-patch.
60 If this config variable is set, diff generation is not
61 performed using the internal diff machinery, but using the
62 given command. Can be overridden with the `GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF'
63 environment variable. The command is called with parameters
64 as described under "git Diffs" in linkgit:git[1]. Note: if
65 you want to use an external diff program only on a subset of
66 your files, you might want to use linkgit:gitattributes[5] instead.
68 diff.ignoreSubmodules::
69 Sets the default value of --ignore-submodules. Note that this
70 affects only 'git diff' Porcelain, and not lower level 'diff'
71 commands such as 'git diff-files'. 'git checkout' also honors
72 this setting when reporting uncommitted changes.
75 If set, 'git diff' uses a prefix pair that is different from the
76 standard "a/" and "b/" depending on what is being compared. When
77 this configuration is in effect, reverse diff output also swaps
78 the order of the prefixes:
80 compares the (i)ndex and the (w)ork tree;
82 compares a (c)ommit and the (w)ork tree;
84 compares a (c)ommit and the (i)ndex;
85 `git diff HEAD:file1 file2`;;
86 compares an (o)bject and a (w)ork tree entity;
87 `git diff --no-index a b`;;
88 compares two non-git things (1) and (2).
91 If set, 'git diff' does not show any source or destination prefix.
94 The number of files to consider when performing the copy/rename
95 detection; equivalent to the 'git diff' option '-l'.
98 Tells git to detect renames. If set to any boolean value, it
99 will enable basic rename detection. If set to "copies" or
100 "copy", it will detect copies, as well.
102 diff.suppressBlankEmpty::
103 A boolean to inhibit the standard behavior of printing a space
104 before each empty output line. Defaults to false.
107 A POSIX Extended Regular Expression used to determine what is a "word"
108 when performing word-by-word difference calculations. Character
109 sequences that match the regular expression are "words", all other
110 characters are *ignorable* whitespace.
112 diff.<driver>.command::
113 The custom diff driver command. See linkgit:gitattributes[5]
116 diff.<driver>.xfuncname::
117 The regular expression that the diff driver should use to
118 recognize the hunk header. A built-in pattern may also be used.
119 See linkgit:gitattributes[5] for details.
121 diff.<driver>.binary::
122 Set this option to true to make the diff driver treat files as
123 binary. See linkgit:gitattributes[5] for details.
125 diff.<driver>.textconv::
126 The command that the diff driver should call to generate the
127 text-converted version of a file. The result of the
128 conversion is used to generate a human-readable diff. See
129 linkgit:gitattributes[5] for details.
131 diff.<driver>.wordregex::
132 The regular expression that the diff driver should use to
133 split words in a line. See linkgit:gitattributes[5] for
136 diff.<driver>.cachetextconv::
137 Set this option to true to make the diff driver cache the text
138 conversion outputs. See linkgit:gitattributes[5] for details.
141 The diff tool to be used by linkgit:git-difftool[1]. This
142 option overrides `merge.tool`, and has the same valid built-in
143 values as `merge.tool` minus "tortoisemerge" and plus
144 "kompare". Any other value is treated as a custom diff tool,
145 and there must be a corresponding `difftool.<tool>.cmd`