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 Generate patches without diffstat. 18endif::git-format-patch[] 19 20ifndef::git-format-patch[] 21-p:: 22 Generate patch (see section on generating patches). 23 {git-diff? This is the default.} 24endif::git-format-patch[] 25 26-u:: 27 Synonym for "-p". 28 29-U<n>:: 30 Shorthand for "--unified=<n>". 31 32--unified=<n>:: 33 Generate diffs with <n> lines of context instead of 34 the usual three. Implies "-p". 35 36--raw:: 37 Generate the raw format. 38 {git-diff-core? This is the default.} 39 40--patch-with-raw:: 41 Synonym for "-p --raw". 42 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. 48 49--numstat:: 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 54 `0 0`. 55 56--shortstat:: 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 59 lines. 60 61--dirstat[=limit]:: 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. 67 68--summary:: 69 Output a condensed summary of extended header information 70 such as creations, renames and mode changes. 71 72--patch-with-stat:: 73 Synonym for "-p --stat". 74 {git-format-patch? This is the default.} 75 76-z:: 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. 80 81--name-only:: 82 Show only names of changed files. 83 84--name-status:: 85 Show only names and status of changed files. See the description 86 of the `--diff-filter` option on what the status letters mean. 87 88--color:: 89 Show colored diff. 90 91--no-color:: 92 Turn off colored diff, even when the configuration file 93 gives the default to color output. 94 95--color-words:: 96 Show colored word diff, i.e. color words which have changed. 97 98--no-renames:: 99 Turn off rename detection, even when the configuration 100 file gives the default to do so. 101 102--check:: 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 106 --exit-code. 107 108--full-index:: 109 Instead of the first handful of characters, show the full 110 pre- and post-image blob object names on the "index" 111 line when generating patch format output. 112 113--binary:: 114 In addition to --full-index, output "binary diff" that 115 can be applied with "git apply". 116 117--abbrev[=<n>]:: 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>. 124 125-B:: 126 Break complete rewrite changes into pairs of delete and create. 127 128-M:: 129 Detect renames. 130 131-C:: 132 Detect copies as well as renames. See also `--find-copies-harder`. 133 134--diff-filter=[ACDMRTUXB*]:: 135 Select only files that are Added (`A`), Copied (`C`), 136 Deleted (`D`), Modified (`M`), Renamed (`R`), have their 137 type (mode) changed (`T`), are Unmerged (`U`), are 138 Unknown (`X`), or have had their pairing Broken (`B`). 139 Any combination of the filter characters may be used. 140 When `*` (All-or-none) is added to the combination, all 141 paths are selected if there is any file that matches 142 other criteria in the comparison; if there is no file 143 that matches other criteria, nothing is selected. 144 145--find-copies-harder:: 146 For performance reasons, by default, `-C` option finds copies only 147 if the original file of the copy was modified in the same 148 changeset. This flag makes the command 149 inspect unmodified files as candidates for the source of 150 copy. This is a very expensive operation for large 151 projects, so use it with caution. Giving more than one 152 `-C` option has the same effect. 153 154-l<num>:: 155 -M and -C options require O(n^2) processing time where n 156 is the number of potential rename/copy targets. This 157 option prevents rename/copy detection from running if 158 the number of rename/copy targets exceeds the specified 159 number. 160 161-S<string>:: 162 Look for differences that contain the change in <string>. 163 164--pickaxe-all:: 165 When -S finds a change, show all the changes in that 166 changeset, not just the files that contain the change 167 in <string>. 168 169--pickaxe-regex:: 170 Make the <string> not a plain string but an extended POSIX 171 regex to match. 172 173-O<orderfile>:: 174 Output the patch in the order specified in the 175 <orderfile>, which has one shell glob pattern per line. 176 177-R:: 178 Swap two inputs; that is, show differences from index or 179 on-disk file to tree contents. 180 181--relative[=<path>]:: 182 When run from a subdirectory of the project, it can be 183 told to exclude changes outside the directory and show 184 pathnames relative to it with this option. When you are 185 not in a subdirectory (e.g. in a bare repository), you 186 can name which subdirectory to make the output relative 187 to by giving a <path> as an argument. 188 189--text:: 190 Treat all files as text. 191 192-a:: 193 Shorthand for "--text". 194 195--ignore-space-at-eol:: 196 Ignore changes in whitespace at EOL. 197 198--ignore-space-change:: 199 Ignore changes in amount of whitespace. This ignores whitespace 200 at line end, and considers all other sequences of one or 201 more whitespace characters to be equivalent. 202 203-b:: 204 Shorthand for "--ignore-space-change". 205 206--ignore-all-space:: 207 Ignore whitespace when comparing lines. This ignores 208 differences even if one line has whitespace where the other 209 line has none. 210 211-w:: 212 Shorthand for "--ignore-all-space". 213 214--exit-code:: 215 Make the program exit with codes similar to diff(1). 216 That is, it exits with 1 if there were differences and 217 0 means no differences. 218 219--quiet:: 220 Disable all output of the program. Implies --exit-code. 221 222--ext-diff:: 223 Allow an external diff helper to be executed. If you set an 224 external diff driver with linkgit:gitattributes[5], you need 225 to use this option with linkgit:git-log[1] and friends. 226 227--no-ext-diff:: 228 Disallow external diff drivers. 229 230--ignore-submodules:: 231 Ignore changes to submodules in the diff generation. 232 233--src-prefix=<prefix>:: 234 Show the given source prefix instead of "a/". 235 236--dst-prefix=<prefix>:: 237 Show the given destination prefix instead of "b/". 238 239--no-prefix:: 240 Do not show any source or destination prefix. 241 242For more detailed explanation on these common options, see also 243linkgit:gitdiffcore[7].