commands such as 'git diff-files'. 'git checkout' also honors
this setting when reporting uncommitted changes. Setting it to
'all' disables the submodule summary normally shown by 'git commit'
- and 'git status' when 'status.submoduleSummary' is set unless it is
+ and 'git status' when `status.submoduleSummary` is set unless it is
overridden by using the --ignore-submodules command-line option.
The 'git submodule' commands are not affected by this setting.
diff.renameLimit::
The number of files to consider when performing the copy/rename
- detection; equivalent to the 'git diff' option '-l'.
+ detection; equivalent to the 'git diff' option `-l`.
diff.renames::
Whether and how Git detects renames. If set to "false",
include::mergetools-diff.txt[]
+diff.compactionHeuristic::
+ Set this option to `true` to enable an experimental heuristic that
+ shifts the hunk boundary in an attempt to make the resulting
+ patch easier to read.
+
diff.algorithm::
Choose a diff algorithm. The variants are as follows:
+