ifndef::git-format-patch[]
-p::
+-u::
Generate patch (see section on generating patches).
{git-diff? This is the default.}
endif::git-format-patch[]
--u::
- Synonym for "-p".
-
-U<n>::
- Shorthand for "--unified=<n>".
-
--unified=<n>::
Generate diffs with <n> lines of context instead of
the usual three. Implies "-p".
number of modified files, as well as number of added and deleted
lines.
+--dirstat[=limit]::
+ Output the distribution of relative amount of changes (number of lines added or
+ removed) for each sub-directory. Directories with changes below
+ a cut-off percent (3% by default) are not shown. The cut-off percent
+ can be set with "--dirstat=limit". Changes in a child directory is not
+ counted for the parent directory, unless "--cumulative" is used.
+
+--dirstat-by-file[=limit]::
+ Same as --dirstat, but counts changed files instead of lines.
+
--summary::
Output a condensed summary of extended header information
such as creations, renames and mode changes.
Show only names of changed files.
--name-status::
- Show only names and status of changed files.
+ Show only names and status of changed files. See the description
+ of the `--diff-filter` option on what the status letters mean.
--color::
Show colored diff.
--exit-code.
--full-index::
- Instead of the first handful characters, show full
- object name of pre- and post-image blob on the "index"
- line when generating a patch format output.
+ Instead of the first handful of characters, show the full
+ pre- and post-image blob object names on the "index"
+ line when generating patch format output.
--binary::
In addition to --full-index, output "binary diff" that
--diff-filter=[ACDMRTUXB*]::
Select only files that are Added (`A`), Copied (`C`),
Deleted (`D`), Modified (`M`), Renamed (`R`), have their
- type (mode) changed (`T`), are Unmerged (`U`), are
+ type (i.e. regular file, symlink, submodule, ...) changed (`T`),
+ are Unmerged (`U`), are
Unknown (`X`), or have had their pairing Broken (`B`).
Any combination of the filter characters may be used.
When `*` (All-or-none) is added to the combination, all
Swap two inputs; that is, show differences from index or
on-disk file to tree contents.
---text::
- Treat all files as text.
+--relative[=<path>]::
+ When run from a subdirectory of the project, it can be
+ told to exclude changes outside the directory and show
+ pathnames relative to it with this option. When you are
+ not in a subdirectory (e.g. in a bare repository), you
+ can name which subdirectory to make the output relative
+ to by giving a <path> as an argument.
-a::
- Shorthand for "--text".
+--text::
+ Treat all files as text.
--ignore-space-at-eol::
Ignore changes in whitespace at EOL.
+-b::
--ignore-space-change::
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".
-
+-w::
--ignore-all-space::
Ignore whitespace when comparing lines. This ignores
differences even if one line has whitespace where the other
line has none.
--w::
- Shorthand for "--ignore-all-space".
+--inter-hunk-context=<lines>::
+ Show the context between diff hunks, up to the specified number
+ of lines, thereby fusing hunks that are close to each other.
--exit-code::
Make the program exit with codes similar to diff(1).
--no-ext-diff::
Disallow external diff drivers.
+--ignore-submodules::
+ Ignore changes to submodules in the diff generation.
+
--src-prefix=<prefix>::
Show the given source prefix instead of "a/".
Do not show any source or destination prefix.
For more detailed explanation on these common options, see also
-link:diffcore.html[diffcore documentation].
+linkgit:gitdiffcore[7].