8ebe185bbf
Document git diff options -b / --ignore-space-change and
-w / --ignore-all-space, introduced by Johannes Schindelin
in commit 0d21efa5, "Teach diff about -b and -w flags".
The description of options is taken from GNU diff man page and
GNU Diffutils info documentation.
Signed-off-by: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
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-p::
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Generate patch (see section on generating patches)
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-u::
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Synonym for "-p".
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--raw::
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Generate the raw format.
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--patch-with-raw::
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Synonym for "-p --raw".
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--stat[=width[,name-width]]::
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Generate a diffstat. You can override the default
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output width for 80-column terminal by "--stat=width".
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The width of the filename part can be controlled by
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giving another width to it separated by a comma.
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--numstat::
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Similar to \--stat, but shows number of added and
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deleted lines in decimal notation and pathname without
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abbreviation, to make it more machine friendly.
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--summary::
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Output a condensed summary of extended header information
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such as creations, renames and mode changes.
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--patch-with-stat::
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Synonym for "-p --stat".
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-z::
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\0 line termination on output
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--name-only::
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Show only names of changed files.
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--name-status::
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Show only names and status of changed files.
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--color::
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Show colored diff.
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--no-color::
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Turn off colored diff, even when the configuration file
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gives the default to color output.
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--color-words::
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Show colored word diff, i.e. color words which have changed.
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--no-renames::
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Turn off rename detection, even when the configuration
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file gives the default to do so.
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--full-index::
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Instead of the first handful characters, show full
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object name of pre- and post-image blob on the "index"
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line when generating a patch format output.
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--binary::
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In addition to --full-index, output "binary diff" that
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can be applied with "git apply".
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--abbrev[=<n>]::
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Instead of showing the full 40-byte hexadecimal object
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name in diff-raw format output and diff-tree header
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lines, show only handful hexdigits prefix. This is
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independent of --full-index option above, which controls
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the diff-patch output format. Non default number of
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digits can be specified with --abbrev=<n>.
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-B::
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Break complete rewrite changes into pairs of delete and create.
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-M::
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Detect renames.
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-C::
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Detect copies as well as renames.
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--diff-filter=[ACDMRTUXB*]::
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Select only files that are Added (`A`), Copied (`C`),
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Deleted (`D`), Modified (`M`), Renamed (`R`), have their
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type (mode) changed (`T`), are Unmerged (`U`), are
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Unknown (`X`), or have had their pairing Broken (`B`).
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Any combination of the filter characters may be used.
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When `*` (All-or-none) is added to the combination, all
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paths are selected if there is any file that matches
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other criteria in the comparison; if there is no file
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that matches other criteria, nothing is selected.
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--find-copies-harder::
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For performance reasons, by default, -C option finds copies only
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if the original file of the copy was modified in the same
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changeset. This flag makes the command
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inspect unmodified files as candidates for the source of
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copy. This is a very expensive operation for large
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projects, so use it with caution.
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-l<num>::
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-M and -C options require O(n^2) processing time where n
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is the number of potential rename/copy targets. This
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option prevents rename/copy detection from running if
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the number of rename/copy targets exceeds the specified
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number.
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-S<string>::
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Look for differences that contain the change in <string>.
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--pickaxe-all::
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When -S finds a change, show all the changes in that
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changeset, not just the files that contain the change
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in <string>.
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--pickaxe-regex::
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Make the <string> not a plain string but an extended POSIX
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regex to match.
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-O<orderfile>::
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Output the patch in the order specified in the
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<orderfile>, which has one shell glob pattern per line.
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-R::
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Swap two inputs; that is, show differences from index or
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on-disk file to tree contents.
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--text::
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Treat all files as text.
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-a::
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Shorthand for "--text".
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--ignore-space-change::
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Ignore changes in amount of white space. This ignores white
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space at line end, and consider all other sequences of one or
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more white space characters to be equivalent.
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-b::
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Shorthand for "--ignore-space-change".
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--ignore-all-space::
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Ignore white space when comparing lines. This ignores
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difference even if one line has white space where the other
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line has none.
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-w::
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Shorthand for "--ignore-all-space".
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For more detailed explanation on these common options, see also
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link:diffcore.html[diffcore documentation].
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