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.
69 Output a condensed summary of extended header information
70 such as creations, renames and mode changes.
73 Synonym for "-p --stat".
74 {git-format-patch? This is the default.}
77 NUL-line termination on output. This affects the --raw
78 output field terminator. Also output from commands such
79 as "git-log" will be delimited with NUL between commits.
82 Show only names of changed files.
85 Show only names and status of changed files. See the description
86 of the `--diff-filter` option on what the status letters mean.
92 Turn off colored diff, even when the configuration file
93 gives the default to color output.
96 Show colored word diff, i.e. color words which have changed.
99 Turn off rename detection, even when the configuration
100 file gives the default to do so.
103 Warn if changes introduce trailing whitespace
104 or an indent that uses a space before a tab. Exits with
105 non-zero status if problems are found. Not compatible with
109 Instead of the first handful characters, show full
110 object name of pre- and post-image blob on the "index"
111 line when generating a patch format output.
114 In addition to --full-index, output "binary diff" that
115 can be applied with "git apply".
118 Instead of showing the full 40-byte hexadecimal object
119 name in diff-raw format output and diff-tree header
120 lines, show only handful hexdigits prefix. This is
121 independent of --full-index option above, which controls
122 the diff-patch output format. Non default number of
123 digits can be specified with --abbrev=<n>.
126 Break complete rewrite changes into pairs of delete and create.
132 Detect copies as well as renames. See also `--find-copies-harder`.
134 --diff-filter=[ACDMRTUXB*]::
135 Select only files that are Added (`A`), Copied (`C`),
136 Deleted (`D`), Modified (`M`), Renamed (`R`), have their
137 type (i.e. regular file, symlink, submodule, ...) changed (`T`),
138 are Unmerged (`U`), are
139 Unknown (`X`), or have had their pairing Broken (`B`).
140 Any combination of the filter characters may be used.
141 When `*` (All-or-none) is added to the combination, all
142 paths are selected if there is any file that matches
143 other criteria in the comparison; if there is no file
144 that matches other criteria, nothing is selected.
146 --find-copies-harder::
147 For performance reasons, by default, `-C` option finds copies only
148 if the original file of the copy was modified in the same
149 changeset. This flag makes the command
150 inspect unmodified files as candidates for the source of
151 copy. This is a very expensive operation for large
152 projects, so use it with caution. Giving more than one
153 `-C` option has the same effect.
156 -M and -C options require O(n^2) processing time where n
157 is the number of potential rename/copy targets. This
158 option prevents rename/copy detection from running if
159 the number of rename/copy targets exceeds the specified
163 Look for differences that contain the change in <string>.
166 When -S finds a change, show all the changes in that
167 changeset, not just the files that contain the change
171 Make the <string> not a plain string but an extended POSIX
175 Output the patch in the order specified in the
176 <orderfile>, which has one shell glob pattern per line.
179 Swap two inputs; that is, show differences from index or
180 on-disk file to tree contents.
182 --relative[=<path>]::
183 When run from a subdirectory of the project, it can be
184 told to exclude changes outside the directory and show
185 pathnames relative to it with this option. When you are
186 not in a subdirectory (e.g. in a bare repository), you
187 can name which subdirectory to make the output relative
188 to by giving a <path> as an argument.
191 Treat all files as text.
194 Shorthand for "--text".
196 --ignore-space-at-eol::
197 Ignore changes in whitespace at EOL.
199 --ignore-space-change::
200 Ignore changes in amount of whitespace. This ignores whitespace
201 at line end, and considers all other sequences of one or
202 more whitespace characters to be equivalent.
205 Shorthand for "--ignore-space-change".
208 Ignore whitespace when comparing lines. This ignores
209 differences even if one line has whitespace where the other
213 Shorthand for "--ignore-all-space".
216 Make the program exit with codes similar to diff(1).
217 That is, it exits with 1 if there were differences and
218 0 means no differences.
221 Disable all output of the program. Implies --exit-code.
224 Allow an external diff helper to be executed. If you set an
225 external diff driver with linkgit:gitattributes[5], you need
226 to use this option with linkgit:git-log[1] and friends.
229 Disallow external diff drivers.
231 --ignore-submodules::
232 Ignore changes to submodules in the diff generation.
234 --src-prefix=<prefix>::
235 Show the given source prefix instead of "a/".
237 --dst-prefix=<prefix>::
238 Show the given destination prefix instead of "b/".
241 Do not show any source or destination prefix.
243 For more detailed explanation on these common options, see also
244 linkgit:gitdiffcore[7].