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 a condensed summary of extended header information
63 such as creations, renames and mode changes.
66 Synonym for "-p --stat".
67 {git-format-patch? This is the default.}
70 NUL-line termination on output. This affects the --raw
71 output field terminator. Also output from commands such
72 as "git-log" will be delimited with NUL between commits.
75 Show only names of changed files.
78 Show only names and status of changed files.
84 Turn off colored diff, even when the configuration file
85 gives the default to color output.
88 Show colored word diff, i.e. color words which have changed.
91 Turn off rename detection, even when the configuration
92 file gives the default to do so.
95 Warn if changes introduce trailing whitespace
96 or an indent that uses a space before a tab.
99 Instead of the first handful characters, show full
100 object name of pre- and post-image blob on the "index"
101 line when generating a patch format output.
104 In addition to --full-index, output "binary diff" that
105 can be applied with "git apply".
108 Instead of showing the full 40-byte hexadecimal object
109 name in diff-raw format output and diff-tree header
110 lines, show only handful hexdigits prefix. This is
111 independent of --full-index option above, which controls
112 the diff-patch output format. Non default number of
113 digits can be specified with --abbrev=<n>.
116 Break complete rewrite changes into pairs of delete and create.
122 Detect copies as well as renames. See also `--find-copies-harder`.
124 --diff-filter=[ACDMRTUXB*]::
125 Select only files that are Added (`A`), Copied (`C`),
126 Deleted (`D`), Modified (`M`), Renamed (`R`), have their
127 type (mode) changed (`T`), are Unmerged (`U`), are
128 Unknown (`X`), or have had their pairing Broken (`B`).
129 Any combination of the filter characters may be used.
130 When `*` (All-or-none) is added to the combination, all
131 paths are selected if there is any file that matches
132 other criteria in the comparison; if there is no file
133 that matches other criteria, nothing is selected.
135 --find-copies-harder::
136 For performance reasons, by default, `-C` option finds copies only
137 if the original file of the copy was modified in the same
138 changeset. This flag makes the command
139 inspect unmodified files as candidates for the source of
140 copy. This is a very expensive operation for large
141 projects, so use it with caution. Giving more than one
142 `-C` option has the same effect.
145 -M and -C options require O(n^2) processing time where n
146 is the number of potential rename/copy targets. This
147 option prevents rename/copy detection from running if
148 the number of rename/copy targets exceeds the specified
152 Look for differences that contain the change in <string>.
155 When -S finds a change, show all the changes in that
156 changeset, not just the files that contain the change
160 Make the <string> not a plain string but an extended POSIX
164 Output the patch in the order specified in the
165 <orderfile>, which has one shell glob pattern per line.
168 Swap two inputs; that is, show differences from index or
169 on-disk file to tree contents.
172 Treat all files as text.
175 Shorthand for "--text".
177 --ignore-space-at-eol::
178 Ignore changes in white spaces at EOL.
180 --ignore-space-change::
181 Ignore changes in amount of white space. This ignores white
182 space at line end, and consider all other sequences of one or
183 more white space characters to be equivalent.
186 Shorthand for "--ignore-space-change".
189 Ignore white space when comparing lines. This ignores
190 difference even if one line has white space where the other
194 Shorthand for "--ignore-all-space".
197 Make the program exit with codes similar to diff(1).
198 That is, it exits with 1 if there were differences and
199 0 means no differences.
202 Disable all output of the program. Implies --exit-code.
205 Allow an external diff helper to be executed. If you set an
206 external diff driver with gitlink:gitattributes[5], you need
207 to use this option with gitlink:git-log[1] and friends.
210 Disallow external diff drivers.
212 For more detailed explanation on these common options, see also
213 link:diffcore.html[diffcore documentation].