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".
40 Generate a diff using the "patience diff" algorithm.
42 --stat[=width[,name-width]]::
43 Generate a diffstat. You can override the default
44 output width for 80-column terminal by "--stat=width".
45 The width of the filename part can be controlled by
46 giving another width to it separated by a comma.
49 Similar to \--stat, but shows number of added and
50 deleted lines in decimal notation and pathname without
51 abbreviation, to make it more machine friendly. For
52 binary files, outputs two `-` instead of saying
56 Output only the last line of the --stat format containing total
57 number of modified files, as well as number of added and deleted
61 Output the distribution of relative amount of changes (number of lines added or
62 removed) for each sub-directory. Directories with changes below
63 a cut-off percent (3% by default) are not shown. The cut-off percent
64 can be set with "--dirstat=limit". Changes in a child directory is not
65 counted for the parent directory, unless "--cumulative" is used.
67 --dirstat-by-file[=limit]::
68 Same as --dirstat, but counts changed files instead of lines.
71 Output a condensed summary of extended header information
72 such as creations, renames and mode changes.
75 Synonym for "-p --stat".
76 {git-format-patch? This is the default.}
79 NUL-line termination on output. This affects the --raw
80 output field terminator. Also output from commands such
81 as "git-log" will be delimited with NUL between commits.
84 Show only names of changed files.
87 Show only names and status of changed files. See the description
88 of the `--diff-filter` option on what the status letters mean.
94 Turn off colored diff, even when the configuration file
95 gives the default to color output.
97 --color-words[=<regex>]::
98 Show colored word diff, i.e., color words which have changed.
99 By default, words are separated by whitespace.
101 When a <regex> is specified, every non-overlapping match of the
102 <regex> is considered a word. Anything between these matches is
103 considered whitespace and ignored(!) for the purposes of finding
104 differences. You may want to append `|[^[:space:]]` to your regular
105 expression to make sure that it matches all non-whitespace characters.
106 A match that contains a newline is silently truncated(!) at the
109 The regex can also be set via a diff driver or configuration option, see
110 linkgit:gitattributes[1] or linkgit:git-config[1]. Giving it explicitly
111 overrides any diff driver or configuration setting. Diff drivers
112 override configuration settings.
115 Turn off rename detection, even when the configuration
116 file gives the default to do so.
119 Warn if changes introduce trailing whitespace
120 or an indent that uses a space before a tab. Exits with
121 non-zero status if problems are found. Not compatible with
125 Instead of the first handful of characters, show the full
126 pre- and post-image blob object names on the "index"
127 line when generating patch format output.
130 In addition to --full-index, output "binary diff" that
131 can be applied with "git apply".
134 Instead of showing the full 40-byte hexadecimal object
135 name in diff-raw format output and diff-tree header
136 lines, show only a partial prefix. This is
137 independent of --full-index option above, which controls
138 the diff-patch output format. Non default number of
139 digits can be specified with --abbrev=<n>.
142 Break complete rewrite changes into pairs of delete and create.
148 Detect copies as well as renames. See also `--find-copies-harder`.
150 --diff-filter=[ACDMRTUXB*]::
151 Select only files that are Added (`A`), Copied (`C`),
152 Deleted (`D`), Modified (`M`), Renamed (`R`), have their
153 type (i.e. regular file, symlink, submodule, ...) changed (`T`),
154 are Unmerged (`U`), are
155 Unknown (`X`), or have had their pairing Broken (`B`).
156 Any combination of the filter characters may be used.
157 When `*` (All-or-none) is added to the combination, all
158 paths are selected if there is any file that matches
159 other criteria in the comparison; if there is no file
160 that matches other criteria, nothing is selected.
162 --find-copies-harder::
163 For performance reasons, by default, `-C` option finds copies only
164 if the original file of the copy was modified in the same
165 changeset. This flag makes the command
166 inspect unmodified files as candidates for the source of
167 copy. This is a very expensive operation for large
168 projects, so use it with caution. Giving more than one
169 `-C` option has the same effect.
172 -M and -C options require O(n^2) processing time where n
173 is the number of potential rename/copy targets. This
174 option prevents rename/copy detection from running if
175 the number of rename/copy targets exceeds the specified
179 Look for differences that introduce or remove an instance of
180 <string>. Note that this is different than the string simply
181 appearing in diff output; see the 'pickaxe' entry in
182 linkgit:gitdiffcore[7] for more details.
185 When -S finds a change, show all the changes in that
186 changeset, not just the files that contain the change
190 Make the <string> not a plain string but an extended POSIX
194 Output the patch in the order specified in the
195 <orderfile>, which has one shell glob pattern per line.
198 Swap two inputs; that is, show differences from index or
199 on-disk file to tree contents.
201 --relative[=<path>]::
202 When run from a subdirectory of the project, it can be
203 told to exclude changes outside the directory and show
204 pathnames relative to it with this option. When you are
205 not in a subdirectory (e.g. in a bare repository), you
206 can name which subdirectory to make the output relative
207 to by giving a <path> as an argument.
211 Treat all files as text.
213 --ignore-space-at-eol::
214 Ignore changes in whitespace at EOL.
217 --ignore-space-change::
218 Ignore changes in amount of whitespace. This ignores whitespace
219 at line end, and considers all other sequences of one or
220 more whitespace characters to be equivalent.
224 Ignore whitespace when comparing lines. This ignores
225 differences even if one line has whitespace where the other
228 --inter-hunk-context=<lines>::
229 Show the context between diff hunks, up to the specified number
230 of lines, thereby fusing hunks that are close to each other.
233 Make the program exit with codes similar to diff(1).
234 That is, it exits with 1 if there were differences and
235 0 means no differences.
238 Disable all output of the program. Implies --exit-code.
241 Allow an external diff helper to be executed. If you set an
242 external diff driver with linkgit:gitattributes[5], you need
243 to use this option with linkgit:git-log[1] and friends.
246 Disallow external diff drivers.
248 --ignore-submodules::
249 Ignore changes to submodules in the diff generation.
251 --src-prefix=<prefix>::
252 Show the given source prefix instead of "a/".
254 --dst-prefix=<prefix>::
255 Show the given destination prefix instead of "b/".
258 Do not show any source or destination prefix.
260 For more detailed explanation on these common options, see also
261 linkgit:gitdiffcore[7].