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. 6 7ifndef::git-format-patch[] 8ifndef::git-diff[] 9ifndef::git-log[] 10:git-diff-core: 1 11endif::git-log[] 12endif::git-diff[] 13endif::git-format-patch[] 14 15ifdef::git-format-patch[] 16-p:: 17--no-stat:: 18 Generate plain patches without any diffstats. 19endif::git-format-patch[] 20 21ifndef::git-format-patch[] 22-p:: 23-u:: 24--patch:: 25 Generate patch (see section on generating patches). 26 {git-diff? This is the default.} 27endif::git-format-patch[] 28 29-U<n>:: 30--unified=<n>:: 31 Generate diffs with <n> lines of context instead of 32 the usual three. 33ifndef::git-format-patch[] 34 Implies `-p`. 35endif::git-format-patch[] 36 37ifndef::git-format-patch[] 38--raw:: 39 Generate the raw format. 40 {git-diff-core? This is the default.} 41endif::git-format-patch[] 42 43ifndef::git-format-patch[] 44--patch-with-raw:: 45 Synonym for `-p --raw`. 46endif::git-format-patch[] 47 48--minimal:: 49 Spend extra time to make sure the smallest possible 50 diff is produced. 51 52--patience:: 53 Generate a diff using the "patience diff" algorithm. 54 55--histogram:: 56 Generate a diff using the "histogram diff" algorithm. 57 58--diff-algorithm={patience|minimal|histogram|myers}:: 59 Choose a diff algorithm. The variants are as follows: 60+ 61-- 62`default`, `myers`;; 63 The basic greedy diff algorithm. Currently, this is the default. 64`minimal`;; 65 Spend extra time to make sure the smallest possible diff is 66 produced. 67`patience`;; 68 Use "patience diff" algorithm when generating patches. 69`histogram`;; 70 This algorithm extends the patience algorithm to "support 71 low-occurrence common elements". 72-- 73+ 74For instance, if you configured diff.algorithm variable to a 75non-default value and want to use the default one, then you 76have to use `--diff-algorithm=default` option. 77 78--stat[=<width>[,<name-width>[,<count>]]]:: 79 Generate a diffstat. By default, as much space as necessary 80 will be used for the filename part, and the rest for the graph 81 part. Maximum width defaults to terminal width, or 80 columns 82 if not connected to a terminal, and can be overridden by 83 `<width>`. The width of the filename part can be limited by 84 giving another width `<name-width>` after a comma. The width 85 of the graph part can be limited by using 86 `--stat-graph-width=<width>` (affects all commands generating 87 a stat graph) or by setting `diff.statGraphWidth=<width>` 88 (does not affect `git format-patch`). 89 By giving a third parameter `<count>`, you can limit the 90 output to the first `<count>` lines, followed by `...` if 91 there are more. 92+ 93These parameters can also be set individually with `--stat-width=<width>`, 94`--stat-name-width=<name-width>` and `--stat-count=<count>`. 95 96--numstat:: 97 Similar to `--stat`, but shows number of added and 98 deleted lines in decimal notation and pathname without 99 abbreviation, to make it more machine friendly. For 100 binary files, outputs two `-` instead of saying 101 `0 0`. 102 103--shortstat:: 104 Output only the last line of the `--stat` format containing total 105 number of modified files, as well as number of added and deleted 106 lines. 107 108--dirstat[=<param1,param2,...>]:: 109 Output the distribution of relative amount of changes for each 110 sub-directory. The behavior of `--dirstat` can be customized by 111 passing it a comma separated list of parameters. 112 The defaults are controlled by the `diff.dirstat` configuration 113 variable (see linkgit:git-config[1]). 114 The following parameters are available: 115+ 116-- 117`changes`;; 118 Compute the dirstat numbers by counting the lines that have been 119 removed from the source, or added to the destination. This ignores 120 the amount of pure code movements within a file. In other words, 121 rearranging lines in a file is not counted as much as other changes. 122 This is the default behavior when no parameter is given. 123`lines`;; 124 Compute the dirstat numbers by doing the regular line-based diff 125 analysis, and summing the removed/added line counts. (For binary 126 files, count 64-byte chunks instead, since binary files have no 127 natural concept of lines). This is a more expensive `--dirstat` 128 behavior than the `changes` behavior, but it does count rearranged 129 lines within a file as much as other changes. The resulting output 130 is consistent with what you get from the other `--*stat` options. 131`files`;; 132 Compute the dirstat numbers by counting the number of files changed. 133 Each changed file counts equally in the dirstat analysis. This is 134 the computationally cheapest `--dirstat` behavior, since it does 135 not have to look at the file contents at all. 136`cumulative`;; 137 Count changes in a child directory for the parent directory as well. 138 Note that when using `cumulative`, the sum of the percentages 139 reported may exceed 100%. The default (non-cumulative) behavior can 140 be specified with the `noncumulative` parameter. 141<limit>;; 142 An integer parameter specifies a cut-off percent (3% by default). 143 Directories contributing less than this percentage of the changes 144 are not shown in the output. 145-- 146+ 147Example: The following will count changed files, while ignoring 148directories with less than 10% of the total amount of changed files, 149and accumulating child directory counts in the parent directories: 150`--dirstat=files,10,cumulative`. 151 152--summary:: 153 Output a condensed summary of extended header information 154 such as creations, renames and mode changes. 155 156ifndef::git-format-patch[] 157--patch-with-stat:: 158 Synonym for `-p --stat`. 159endif::git-format-patch[] 160 161ifndef::git-format-patch[] 162 163-z:: 164ifdef::git-log[] 165 Separate the commits with NULs instead of with new newlines. 166+ 167Also, when `--raw` or `--numstat` has been given, do not munge 168pathnames and use NULs as output field terminators. 169endif::git-log[] 170ifndef::git-log[] 171 When `--raw`, `--numstat`, `--name-only` or `--name-status` has been 172 given, do not munge pathnames and use NULs as output field terminators. 173endif::git-log[] 174+ 175Without this option, each pathname output will have TAB, LF, double quotes, 176and backslash characters replaced with `\t`, `\n`, `\"`, and `\\`, 177respectively, and the pathname will be enclosed in double quotes if 178any of those replacements occurred. 179 180--name-only:: 181 Show only names of changed files. 182 183--name-status:: 184 Show only names and status of changed files. See the description 185 of the `--diff-filter` option on what the status letters mean. 186 187--submodule[=<format>]:: 188 Specify how differences in submodules are shown. When `--submodule` 189 or `--submodule=log` is given, the 'log' format is used. This format lists 190 the commits in the range like linkgit:git-submodule[1] `summary` does. 191 Omitting the `--submodule` option or specifying `--submodule=short`, 192 uses the 'short' format. This format just shows the names of the commits 193 at the beginning and end of the range. Can be tweaked via the 194 `diff.submodule` configuration variable. 195 196--color[=<when>]:: 197 Show colored diff. 198 `--color` (i.e. without '=<when>') is the same as `--color=always`. 199 '<when>' can be one of `always`, `never`, or `auto`. 200ifdef::git-diff[] 201 It can be changed by the `color.ui` and `color.diff` 202 configuration settings. 203endif::git-diff[] 204 205--no-color:: 206 Turn off colored diff. 207ifdef::git-diff[] 208 This can be used to override configuration settings. 209endif::git-diff[] 210 It is the same as `--color=never`. 211 212--word-diff[=<mode>]:: 213 Show a word diff, using the <mode> to delimit changed words. 214 By default, words are delimited by whitespace; see 215 `--word-diff-regex` below. The <mode> defaults to 'plain', and 216 must be one of: 217+ 218-- 219color:: 220 Highlight changed words using only colors. Implies `--color`. 221plain:: 222 Show words as `[-removed-]` and `{+added+}`. Makes no 223 attempts to escape the delimiters if they appear in the input, 224 so the output may be ambiguous. 225porcelain:: 226 Use a special line-based format intended for script 227 consumption. Added/removed/unchanged runs are printed in the 228 usual unified diff format, starting with a `+`/`-`/` ` 229 character at the beginning of the line and extending to the 230 end of the line. Newlines in the input are represented by a 231 tilde `~` on a line of its own. 232none:: 233 Disable word diff again. 234-- 235+ 236Note that despite the name of the first mode, color is used to 237highlight the changed parts in all modes if enabled. 238 239--word-diff-regex=<regex>:: 240 Use <regex> to decide what a word is, instead of considering 241 runs of non-whitespace to be a word. Also implies 242 `--word-diff` unless it was already enabled. 243+ 244Every non-overlapping match of the 245<regex> is considered a word. Anything between these matches is 246considered whitespace and ignored(!) for the purposes of finding 247differences. You may want to append `|[^[:space:]]` to your regular 248expression to make sure that it matches all non-whitespace characters. 249A match that contains a newline is silently truncated(!) at the 250newline. 251+ 252The regex can also be set via a diff driver or configuration option, see 253linkgit:gitattributes[1] or linkgit:git-config[1]. Giving it explicitly 254overrides any diff driver or configuration setting. Diff drivers 255override configuration settings. 256 257--color-words[=<regex>]:: 258 Equivalent to `--word-diff=color` plus (if a regex was 259 specified) `--word-diff-regex=<regex>`. 260endif::git-format-patch[] 261 262--no-renames:: 263 Turn off rename detection, even when the configuration 264 file gives the default to do so. 265 266ifndef::git-format-patch[] 267--check:: 268 Warn if changes introduce whitespace errors. What are 269 considered whitespace errors is controlled by `core.whitespace` 270 configuration. By default, trailing whitespaces (including 271 lines that solely consist of whitespaces) and a space character 272 that is immediately followed by a tab character inside the 273 initial indent of the line are considered whitespace errors. 274 Exits with non-zero status if problems are found. Not compatible 275 with --exit-code. 276endif::git-format-patch[] 277 278--full-index:: 279 Instead of the first handful of characters, show the full 280 pre- and post-image blob object names on the "index" 281 line when generating patch format output. 282 283--binary:: 284 In addition to `--full-index`, output a binary diff that 285 can be applied with `git-apply`. 286 287--abbrev[=<n>]:: 288 Instead of showing the full 40-byte hexadecimal object 289 name in diff-raw format output and diff-tree header 290 lines, show only a partial prefix. This is 291 independent of the `--full-index` option above, which controls 292 the diff-patch output format. Non default number of 293 digits can be specified with `--abbrev=<n>`. 294 295-B[<n>][/<m>]:: 296--break-rewrites[=[<n>][/<m>]]:: 297 Break complete rewrite changes into pairs of delete and 298 create. This serves two purposes: 299+ 300It affects the way a change that amounts to a total rewrite of a file 301not as a series of deletion and insertion mixed together with a very 302few lines that happen to match textually as the context, but as a 303single deletion of everything old followed by a single insertion of 304everything new, and the number `m` controls this aspect of the -B 305option (defaults to 60%). `-B/70%` specifies that less than 30% of the 306original should remain in the result for Git to consider it a total 307rewrite (i.e. otherwise the resulting patch will be a series of 308deletion and insertion mixed together with context lines). 309+ 310When used with -M, a totally-rewritten file is also considered as the 311source of a rename (usually -M only considers a file that disappeared 312as the source of a rename), and the number `n` controls this aspect of 313the -B option (defaults to 50%). `-B20%` specifies that a change with 314addition and deletion compared to 20% or more of the file's size are 315eligible for being picked up as a possible source of a rename to 316another file. 317 318-M[<n>]:: 319--find-renames[=<n>]:: 320ifndef::git-log[] 321 Detect renames. 322endif::git-log[] 323ifdef::git-log[] 324 If generating diffs, detect and report renames for each commit. 325 For following files across renames while traversing history, see 326 `--follow`. 327endif::git-log[] 328 If `n` is specified, it is a threshold on the similarity 329 index (i.e. amount of addition/deletions compared to the 330 file's size). For example, `-M90%` means Git should consider a 331 delete/add pair to be a rename if more than 90% of the file 332 hasn't changed. Without a `%` sign, the number is to be read as 333 a fraction, with a decimal point before it. I.e., `-M5` becomes 334 0.5, and is thus the same as `-M50%`. Similarly, `-M05` is 335 the same as `-M5%`. To limit detection to exact renames, use 336 `-M100%`. 337 338-C[<n>]:: 339--find-copies[=<n>]:: 340 Detect copies as well as renames. See also `--find-copies-harder`. 341 If `n` is specified, it has the same meaning as for `-M<n>`. 342 343--find-copies-harder:: 344 For performance reasons, by default, `-C` option finds copies only 345 if the original file of the copy was modified in the same 346 changeset. This flag makes the command 347 inspect unmodified files as candidates for the source of 348 copy. This is a very expensive operation for large 349 projects, so use it with caution. Giving more than one 350 `-C` option has the same effect. 351 352-D:: 353--irreversible-delete:: 354 Omit the preimage for deletes, i.e. print only the header but not 355 the diff between the preimage and `/dev/null`. The resulting patch 356 is not meant to be applied with `patch` nor `git apply`; this is 357 solely for people who want to just concentrate on reviewing the 358 text after the change. In addition, the output obviously lack 359 enough information to apply such a patch in reverse, even manually, 360 hence the name of the option. 361+ 362When used together with `-B`, omit also the preimage in the deletion part 363of a delete/create pair. 364 365-l<num>:: 366 The `-M` and `-C` options require O(n^2) processing time where n 367 is the number of potential rename/copy targets. This 368 option prevents rename/copy detection from running if 369 the number of rename/copy targets exceeds the specified 370 number. 371 372ifndef::git-format-patch[] 373--diff-filter=[(A|C|D|M|R|T|U|X|B)...[*]]:: 374 Select only files that are Added (`A`), Copied (`C`), 375 Deleted (`D`), Modified (`M`), Renamed (`R`), have their 376 type (i.e. regular file, symlink, submodule, ...) changed (`T`), 377 are Unmerged (`U`), are 378 Unknown (`X`), or have had their pairing Broken (`B`). 379 Any combination of the filter characters (including none) can be used. 380 When `*` (All-or-none) is added to the combination, all 381 paths are selected if there is any file that matches 382 other criteria in the comparison; if there is no file 383 that matches other criteria, nothing is selected. 384 385-S<string>:: 386 Look for differences that introduce or remove an instance of 387 <string>. Note that this is different than the string simply 388 appearing in diff output; see the 'pickaxe' entry in 389 linkgit:gitdiffcore[7] for more details. 390 391-G<regex>:: 392 Look for differences whose added or removed line matches 393 the given <regex>. 394 395--pickaxe-all:: 396 When `-S` or `-G` finds a change, show all the changes in that 397 changeset, not just the files that contain the change 398 in <string>. 399 400--pickaxe-regex:: 401 Make the <string> not a plain string but an extended POSIX 402 regex to match. 403endif::git-format-patch[] 404 405-O<orderfile>:: 406 Output the patch in the order specified in the 407 <orderfile>, which has one shell glob pattern per line. 408 409ifndef::git-format-patch[] 410-R:: 411 Swap two inputs; that is, show differences from index or 412 on-disk file to tree contents. 413 414--relative[=<path>]:: 415 When run from a subdirectory of the project, it can be 416 told to exclude changes outside the directory and show 417 pathnames relative to it with this option. When you are 418 not in a subdirectory (e.g. in a bare repository), you 419 can name which subdirectory to make the output relative 420 to by giving a <path> as an argument. 421endif::git-format-patch[] 422 423-a:: 424--text:: 425 Treat all files as text. 426 427--ignore-space-at-eol:: 428 Ignore changes in whitespace at EOL. 429 430-b:: 431--ignore-space-change:: 432 Ignore changes in amount of whitespace. This ignores whitespace 433 at line end, and considers all other sequences of one or 434 more whitespace characters to be equivalent. 435 436-w:: 437--ignore-all-space:: 438 Ignore whitespace when comparing lines. This ignores 439 differences even if one line has whitespace where the other 440 line has none. 441 442--inter-hunk-context=<lines>:: 443 Show the context between diff hunks, up to the specified number 444 of lines, thereby fusing hunks that are close to each other. 445 446-W:: 447--function-context:: 448 Show whole surrounding functions of changes. 449 450ifndef::git-format-patch[] 451ifndef::git-log[] 452--exit-code:: 453 Make the program exit with codes similar to diff(1). 454 That is, it exits with 1 if there were differences and 455 0 means no differences. 456 457--quiet:: 458 Disable all output of the program. Implies `--exit-code`. 459endif::git-log[] 460endif::git-format-patch[] 461 462--ext-diff:: 463 Allow an external diff helper to be executed. If you set an 464 external diff driver with linkgit:gitattributes[5], you need 465 to use this option with linkgit:git-log[1] and friends. 466 467--no-ext-diff:: 468 Disallow external diff drivers. 469 470--textconv:: 471--no-textconv:: 472 Allow (or disallow) external text conversion filters to be run 473 when comparing binary files. See linkgit:gitattributes[5] for 474 details. Because textconv filters are typically a one-way 475 conversion, the resulting diff is suitable for human 476 consumption, but cannot be applied. For this reason, textconv 477 filters are enabled by default only for linkgit:git-diff[1] and 478 linkgit:git-log[1], but not for linkgit:git-format-patch[1] or 479 diff plumbing commands. 480 481--ignore-submodules[=<when>]:: 482 Ignore changes to submodules in the diff generation. <when> can be 483 either "none", "untracked", "dirty" or "all", which is the default 484 Using "none" will consider the submodule modified when it either contains 485 untracked or modified files or its HEAD differs from the commit recorded 486 in the superproject and can be used to override any settings of the 487 'ignore' option in linkgit:git-config[1] or linkgit:gitmodules[5]. When 488 "untracked" is used submodules are not considered dirty when they only 489 contain untracked content (but they are still scanned for modified 490 content). Using "dirty" ignores all changes to the work tree of submodules, 491 only changes to the commits stored in the superproject are shown (this was 492 the behavior until 1.7.0). Using "all" hides all changes to submodules. 493 494--src-prefix=<prefix>:: 495 Show the given source prefix instead of "a/". 496 497--dst-prefix=<prefix>:: 498 Show the given destination prefix instead of "b/". 499 500--no-prefix:: 501 Do not show any source or destination prefix. 502 503For more detailed explanation on these common options, see also 504linkgit:gitdiffcore[7].