+// Please don't remove this comment as asciidoc behaves badly when
+// the first non-empty line is ifdef/ifndef. The symptom is that
+// without this comment the <git-diff-core> attribute conditionally
+// defined below ends up being defined unconditionally.
+// Last checked with asciidoc 7.0.2.
+
+ifndef::git-format-patch[]
+ifndef::git-diff[]
+ifndef::git-log[]
+:git-diff-core: 1
+endif::git-log[]
+endif::git-diff[]
+endif::git-format-patch[]
+
+ifdef::git-format-patch[]
-p::
- Generate patch (see section on generating patches)
+ Generate patches without diffstat.
+endif::git-format-patch[]
+
+ifndef::git-format-patch[]
+-p::
+ Generate patch (see section on generating patches).
+ {git-diff? This is the default.}
+endif::git-format-patch[]
-u::
Synonym for "-p".
--raw::
Generate the raw format.
+ {git-diff-core? This is the default.}
--patch-with-raw::
Synonym for "-p --raw".
--patch-with-stat::
Synonym for "-p --stat".
+ {git-format-patch? This is the default.}
-z::
NUL-line termination on output. This affects the --raw
--check::
Warn if changes introduce trailing whitespace
- or an indent that uses a space before a tab.
+ or an indent that uses a space before a tab. Exits with
+ non-zero status if problems are found. Not compatible with
+ --exit-code.
--full-index::
Instead of the first handful characters, show full
Shorthand for "--text".
--ignore-space-at-eol::
- Ignore changes in white spaces at EOL.
+ Ignore changes in whitespace at EOL.
--ignore-space-change::
- Ignore changes in amount of white space. This ignores white
- space at line end, and consider all other sequences of one or
- more white space characters to be equivalent.
+ Ignore changes in amount of whitespace. This ignores whitespace
+ at line end, and considers all other sequences of one or
+ more whitespace characters to be equivalent.
-b::
Shorthand for "--ignore-space-change".
--ignore-all-space::
- Ignore white space when comparing lines. This ignores
- difference even if one line has white space where the other
+ Ignore whitespace when comparing lines. This ignores
+ differences even if one line has whitespace where the other
line has none.
-w::
--ext-diff::
Allow an external diff helper to be executed. If you set an
- external diff driver with gitlink:gitattributes[5], you need
- to use this option with gitlink:git-log[1] and friends.
+ external diff driver with linkgit:gitattributes[5], you need
+ to use this option with linkgit:git-log[1] and friends.
--no-ext-diff::
Disallow external diff drivers.
+--src-prefix=<prefix>::
+ Show the given source prefix instead of "a/".
+
+--dst-prefix=<prefix>::
+ Show the given destination prefix instead of "b/".
+
+--no-prefix::
+ Do not show any source or destination prefix.
+
For more detailed explanation on these common options, see also
link:diffcore.html[diffcore documentation].