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[]
23 Generate patch (see section on generating patches).
24 {git-diff? This is the default.}
25 endif::git-format-patch[]
29 Generate diffs with <n> lines of context instead of
30 the usual three. Implies "-p".
33 Generate the raw format.
34 {git-diff-core? This is the default.}
37 Synonym for "-p --raw".
39 --stat[=width[,name-width]]::
40 Generate a diffstat. You can override the default
41 output width for 80-column terminal by "--stat=width".
42 The width of the filename part can be controlled by
43 giving another width to it separated by a comma.
46 Similar to \--stat, but shows number of added and
47 deleted lines in decimal notation and pathname without
48 abbreviation, to make it more machine friendly. For
49 binary files, outputs two `-` instead of saying
53 Output only the last line of the --stat format containing total
54 number of modified files, as well as number of added and deleted
58 Output the distribution of relative amount of changes (number of lines added or
59 removed) for each sub-directory. Directories with changes below
60 a cut-off percent (3% by default) are not shown. The cut-off percent
61 can be set with "--dirstat=limit". Changes in a child directory is not
62 counted for the parent directory, unless "--cumulative" is used.
64 --dirstat-by-file[=limit]::
65 Same as --dirstat, but counts changed files instead of lines.
68 Output a condensed summary of extended header information
69 such as creations, renames and mode changes.
72 Synonym for "-p --stat".
73 {git-format-patch? This is the default.}
76 NUL-line termination on output. This affects the --raw
77 output field terminator. Also output from commands such
78 as "git-log" will be delimited with NUL between commits.
81 Show only names of changed files.
84 Show only names and status of changed files. See the description
85 of the `--diff-filter` option on what the status letters mean.
91 Turn off colored diff, even when the configuration file
92 gives the default to color output.
95 Show colored word diff, i.e. color words which have changed.
98 Turn off rename detection, even when the configuration
99 file gives the default to do so.
102 Warn if changes introduce trailing whitespace
103 or an indent that uses a space before a tab. Exits with
104 non-zero status if problems are found. Not compatible with
108 Instead of the first handful of characters, show the full
109 pre- and post-image blob object names on the "index"
110 line when generating patch format output.
113 In addition to --full-index, output "binary diff" that
114 can be applied with "git apply".
117 Instead of showing the full 40-byte hexadecimal object
118 name in diff-raw format output and diff-tree header
119 lines, show only a partial prefix. This is
120 independent of --full-index option above, which controls
121 the diff-patch output format. Non default number of
122 digits can be specified with --abbrev=<n>.
125 Break complete rewrite changes into pairs of delete and create.
131 Detect copies as well as renames. See also `--find-copies-harder`.
133 --diff-filter=[ACDMRTUXB*]::
134 Select only files that are Added (`A`), Copied (`C`),
135 Deleted (`D`), Modified (`M`), Renamed (`R`), have their
136 type (i.e. regular file, symlink, submodule, ...) changed (`T`),
137 are Unmerged (`U`), are
138 Unknown (`X`), or have had their pairing Broken (`B`).
139 Any combination of the filter characters may be used.
140 When `*` (All-or-none) is added to the combination, all
141 paths are selected if there is any file that matches
142 other criteria in the comparison; if there is no file
143 that matches other criteria, nothing is selected.
145 --find-copies-harder::
146 For performance reasons, by default, `-C` option finds copies only
147 if the original file of the copy was modified in the same
148 changeset. This flag makes the command
149 inspect unmodified files as candidates for the source of
150 copy. This is a very expensive operation for large
151 projects, so use it with caution. Giving more than one
152 `-C` option has the same effect.
155 -M and -C options require O(n^2) processing time where n
156 is the number of potential rename/copy targets. This
157 option prevents rename/copy detection from running if
158 the number of rename/copy targets exceeds the specified
162 Look for differences that contain the change in <string>.
165 When -S finds a change, show all the changes in that
166 changeset, not just the files that contain the change
170 Make the <string> not a plain string but an extended POSIX
174 Output the patch in the order specified in the
175 <orderfile>, which has one shell glob pattern per line.
178 Swap two inputs; that is, show differences from index or
179 on-disk file to tree contents.
181 --relative[=<path>]::
182 When run from a subdirectory of the project, it can be
183 told to exclude changes outside the directory and show
184 pathnames relative to it with this option. When you are
185 not in a subdirectory (e.g. in a bare repository), you
186 can name which subdirectory to make the output relative
187 to by giving a <path> as an argument.
191 Treat all files as text.
193 --ignore-space-at-eol::
194 Ignore changes in whitespace at EOL.
197 --ignore-space-change::
198 Ignore changes in amount of whitespace. This ignores whitespace
199 at line end, and considers all other sequences of one or
200 more whitespace characters to be equivalent.
204 Ignore whitespace when comparing lines. This ignores
205 differences even if one line has whitespace where the other
208 --inter-hunk-context=<lines>::
209 Show the context between diff hunks, up to the specified number
210 of lines, thereby fusing hunks that are close to each other.
213 Make the program exit with codes similar to diff(1).
214 That is, it exits with 1 if there were differences and
215 0 means no differences.
218 Disable all output of the program. Implies --exit-code.
221 Allow an external diff helper to be executed. If you set an
222 external diff driver with linkgit:gitattributes[5], you need
223 to use this option with linkgit:git-log[1] and friends.
226 Disallow external diff drivers.
228 --ignore-submodules::
229 Ignore changes to submodules in the diff generation.
231 --src-prefix=<prefix>::
232 Show the given source prefix instead of "a/".
234 --dst-prefix=<prefix>::
235 Show the given destination prefix instead of "b/".
238 Do not show any source or destination prefix.
240 For more detailed explanation on these common options, see also
241 linkgit:gitdiffcore[7].