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. Exits with
97 non-zero status if problems are found. Not compatible with
101 Instead of the first handful characters, show full
102 object name of pre- and post-image blob on the "index"
103 line when generating a patch format output.
106 In addition to --full-index, output "binary diff" that
107 can be applied with "git apply".
110 Instead of showing the full 40-byte hexadecimal object
111 name in diff-raw format output and diff-tree header
112 lines, show only handful hexdigits prefix. This is
113 independent of --full-index option above, which controls
114 the diff-patch output format. Non default number of
115 digits can be specified with --abbrev=<n>.
118 Break complete rewrite changes into pairs of delete and create.
124 Detect copies as well as renames. See also `--find-copies-harder`.
126 --diff-filter=[ACDMRTUXB*]::
127 Select only files that are Added (`A`), Copied (`C`),
128 Deleted (`D`), Modified (`M`), Renamed (`R`), have their
129 type (mode) changed (`T`), are Unmerged (`U`), are
130 Unknown (`X`), or have had their pairing Broken (`B`).
131 Any combination of the filter characters may be used.
132 When `*` (All-or-none) is added to the combination, all
133 paths are selected if there is any file that matches
134 other criteria in the comparison; if there is no file
135 that matches other criteria, nothing is selected.
137 --find-copies-harder::
138 For performance reasons, by default, `-C` option finds copies only
139 if the original file of the copy was modified in the same
140 changeset. This flag makes the command
141 inspect unmodified files as candidates for the source of
142 copy. This is a very expensive operation for large
143 projects, so use it with caution. Giving more than one
144 `-C` option has the same effect.
147 -M and -C options require O(n^2) processing time where n
148 is the number of potential rename/copy targets. This
149 option prevents rename/copy detection from running if
150 the number of rename/copy targets exceeds the specified
154 Look for differences that contain the change in <string>.
157 When -S finds a change, show all the changes in that
158 changeset, not just the files that contain the change
162 Make the <string> not a plain string but an extended POSIX
166 Output the patch in the order specified in the
167 <orderfile>, which has one shell glob pattern per line.
170 Swap two inputs; that is, show differences from index or
171 on-disk file to tree contents.
173 --relative[=<path>]::
174 When run from a subdirectory of the project, it can be
175 told to exclude changes outside the directory and show
176 pathnames relative to it with this option. When you are
177 not in a subdirectory (e.g. in a bare repository), you
178 can name which subdirectory to make the output relative
179 to by giving a <path> as an argument.
182 Treat all files as text.
185 Shorthand for "--text".
187 --ignore-space-at-eol::
188 Ignore changes in whitespace at EOL.
190 --ignore-space-change::
191 Ignore changes in amount of whitespace. This ignores whitespace
192 at line end, and considers all other sequences of one or
193 more whitespace characters to be equivalent.
196 Shorthand for "--ignore-space-change".
199 Ignore whitespace when comparing lines. This ignores
200 differences even if one line has whitespace where the other
204 Shorthand for "--ignore-all-space".
207 Make the program exit with codes similar to diff(1).
208 That is, it exits with 1 if there were differences and
209 0 means no differences.
212 Disable all output of the program. Implies --exit-code.
215 Allow an external diff helper to be executed. If you set an
216 external diff driver with linkgit:gitattributes[5], you need
217 to use this option with linkgit:git-log[1] and friends.
220 Disallow external diff drivers.
222 --src-prefix=<prefix>::
223 Show the given source prefix instead of "a/".
225 --dst-prefix=<prefix>::
226 Show the given destination prefix instead of "b/".
229 Do not show any source or destination prefix.
231 For more detailed explanation on these common options, see also
232 link:diffcore.html[diffcore documentation].