ifndef::git-format-patch[]
-p::
-u::
+--patch::
Generate patch (see section on generating patches).
{git-diff? This is the default.}
endif::git-format-patch[]
gives the default to color output.
Same as `--color=never`.
---color-words[=<regex>]::
- Show colored word diff, i.e., color words which have changed.
- By default, words are separated by whitespace.
+--word-diff[=<mode>]::
+ Show a word diff, using the <mode> to delimit changed words.
+ By default, words are delimited by whitespace; see
+ `--word-diff-regex` below. The <mode> defaults to 'plain', and
+ must be one of:
++
+--
+color::
+ Highlight changed words using only colors. Implies `--color`.
+plain::
+ Show words as `[-removed-]` and `{+added+}`. Makes no
+ attempts to escape the delimiters if they appear in the input,
+ so the output may be ambiguous.
+porcelain::
+ Use a special line-based format intended for script
+ consumption. Added/removed/unchanged runs are printed in the
+ usual unified diff format, starting with a `+`/`-`/` `
+ character at the beginning of the line and extending to the
+ end of the line. Newlines in the input are represented by a
+ tilde `~` on a line of its own.
+none::
+ Disable word diff again.
+--
++
+Note that despite the name of the first mode, color is used to
+highlight the changed parts in all modes if enabled.
+
+--word-diff-regex=<regex>::
+ Use <regex> to decide what a word is, instead of considering
+ runs of non-whitespace to be a word. Also implies
+ `--word-diff` unless it was already enabled.
+
-When a <regex> is specified, every non-overlapping match of the
+Every non-overlapping match of the
<regex> is considered a word. Anything between these matches is
considered whitespace and ignored(!) for the purposes of finding
differences. You may want to append `|[^[:space:]]` to your regular
linkgit:gitattributes[1] or linkgit:git-config[1]. Giving it explicitly
overrides any diff driver or configuration setting. Diff drivers
override configuration settings.
+
+--color-words[=<regex>]::
+ Equivalent to `--word-diff=color` plus (if a regex was
+ specified) `--word-diff-regex=<regex>`.
endif::git-format-patch[]
--no-renames::
--no-ext-diff::
Disallow external diff drivers.
---ignore-submodules::
- Ignore changes to submodules in the diff generation.
+--ignore-submodules[=<when>]::
+ Ignore changes to submodules in the diff generation. <when> can be
+ either "untracked", "dirty" or "all", which is the default. When
+ "untracked" is used submodules are not considered dirty when they only
+ contain untracked content (but they are still scanned for modified
+ content). Using "dirty" ignores all changes to the work tree of submodules,
+ only changes to the commits stored in the superproject are shown (this was
+ the behavior until 1.7.0). Using "all" hides all changes to submodules.
--src-prefix=<prefix>::
Show the given source prefix instead of "a/".