Generate diffs with <n> lines of context instead of the default
of 3. This value is overridden by the -U option.
+diff.interHunkContext::
+ Show the context between diff hunks, up to the specified number
+ of lines, thereby fusing the hunks that are close to each other.
+ This value serves as the default for the `--inter-hunk-context`
+ command line option.
+
diff.external::
If this config variable is set, diff generation is not
performed using the internal diff machinery, but using the
If set, 'git diff' does not show any source or destination prefix.
diff.orderFile::
- File indicating how to order files within a diff, using
- one shell glob pattern per line.
- Can be overridden by the '-O' option to linkgit:git-diff[1].
+ File indicating how to order files within a diff.
+ See the '-O' option to linkgit:git-diff[1] for details.
+ If `diff.orderFile` is a relative pathname, it is treated as
+ relative to the top of the working tree.
diff.renameLimit::
The number of files to consider when performing the copy/rename
diff.submodule::
Specify the format in which differences in submodules are
- shown. The "log" format lists the commits in the range like
- linkgit:git-submodule[1] `summary` does. The "short" format
- format just shows the names of the commits at the beginning
- and end of the range. Defaults to short.
+ shown. The "short" format just shows the names of the commits
+ at the beginning and end of the range. The "log" format lists
+ the commits in the range like linkgit:git-submodule[1] `summary`
+ does. The "diff" format shows an inline diff of the changed
+ contents of the submodule. Defaults to "short".
diff.wordRegex::
A POSIX Extended Regular Expression used to determine what is a "word"
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.indentHeuristic::
+ Set this option to `true` to enable experimental heuristics
+ that shift diff hunk boundaries to make patches easier to read.
diff.algorithm::
Choose a diff algorithm. The variants are as follows:
low-occurrence common elements".
--
+
+
+diff.wsErrorHighlight::
+ Highlight whitespace errors in the `context`, `old` or `new`
+ lines of the diff. Multiple values are separated by comma,
+ `none` resets previous values, `default` reset the list to
+ `new` and `all` is a shorthand for `old,new,context`. The
+ whitespace errors are colored with `color.diff.whitespace`.
+ The command line option `--ws-error-highlight=<kind>`
+ overrides this setting.