1 // Please don't remove this comment as asciidoc behaves badly when
2 // the first non-empty line is ifdef/ifndef. The symptom is that
3 // without this comment the <git-diff-core> attribute conditionally
4 // defined below ends up being defined unconditionally.
5 // Last checked with asciidoc 7.0.2.
7 ifndef::git-format-patch[]
13 endif::git-format-patch[]
15 ifdef::git-format-patch[]
17 Generate patches without diffstat.
18 endif::git-format-patch[]
20 ifndef::git-format-patch[]
23 Generate patch (see section on generating patches).
24 {git-diff? This is the default.}
25 endif::git-format-patch[]
29 Generate diffs with <n> lines of context instead of
30 the usual three. Implies "-p".
33 Generate the raw format.
34 {git-diff-core? This is the default.}
37 Synonym for "-p --raw".
40 Generate a diff using the "patience diff" algorithm.
42 --stat[=width[,name-width]]::
43 Generate a diffstat. You can override the default
44 output width for 80-column terminal by "--stat=width".
45 The width of the filename part can be controlled by
46 giving another width to it separated by a comma.
49 Similar to \--stat, but shows number of added and
50 deleted lines in decimal notation and pathname without
51 abbreviation, to make it more machine friendly. For
52 binary files, outputs two `-` instead of saying
56 Output only the last line of the --stat format containing total
57 number of modified files, as well as number of added and deleted
61 Output the distribution of relative amount of changes (number of lines added or
62 removed) for each sub-directory. Directories with changes below
63 a cut-off percent (3% by default) are not shown. The cut-off percent
64 can be set with "--dirstat=limit". Changes in a child directory is not
65 counted for the parent directory, unless "--cumulative" is used.
67 --dirstat-by-file[=limit]::
68 Same as --dirstat, but counts changed files instead of lines.
71 Output a condensed summary of extended header information
72 such as creations, renames and mode changes.
75 Synonym for "-p --stat".
76 {git-format-patch? This is the default.}
79 NUL-line termination on output. This affects the --raw
80 output field terminator. Also output from commands such
81 as "git-log" will be delimited with NUL between commits.
84 Show only names of changed files.
87 Show only names and status of changed files. See the description
88 of the `--diff-filter` option on what the status letters mean.
90 --submodule[=<format>]::
91 Chose the output format for submodule differences. <format> can be one of
92 'short' and 'log'. 'short' just shows pairs of commit names, this format
93 is used when this option is not given. 'log' is the default value for this
94 option and lists the commits in that commit range like the 'summary'
95 option of linkgit:git-submodule[1] does.
101 Turn off colored diff, even when the configuration file
102 gives the default to color output.
104 --color-words[=<regex>]::
105 Show colored word diff, i.e., color words which have changed.
106 By default, words are separated by whitespace.
108 When a <regex> is specified, every non-overlapping match of the
109 <regex> is considered a word. Anything between these matches is
110 considered whitespace and ignored(!) for the purposes of finding
111 differences. You may want to append `|[^[:space:]]` to your regular
112 expression to make sure that it matches all non-whitespace characters.
113 A match that contains a newline is silently truncated(!) at the
116 The regex can also be set via a diff driver or configuration option, see
117 linkgit:gitattributes[1] or linkgit:git-config[1]. Giving it explicitly
118 overrides any diff driver or configuration setting. Diff drivers
119 override configuration settings.
122 Turn off rename detection, even when the configuration
123 file gives the default to do so.
126 Warn if changes introduce trailing whitespace
127 or an indent that uses a space before a tab. Exits with
128 non-zero status if problems are found. Not compatible with
132 Instead of the first handful of characters, show the full
133 pre- and post-image blob object names on the "index"
134 line when generating patch format output.
137 In addition to --full-index, output "binary diff" that
138 can be applied with "git apply".
141 Instead of showing the full 40-byte hexadecimal object
142 name in diff-raw format output and diff-tree header
143 lines, show only a partial prefix. This is
144 independent of --full-index option above, which controls
145 the diff-patch output format. Non default number of
146 digits can be specified with --abbrev=<n>.
149 Break complete rewrite changes into pairs of delete and create.
155 Detect copies as well as renames. See also `--find-copies-harder`.
157 --diff-filter=[ACDMRTUXB*]::
158 Select only files that are Added (`A`), Copied (`C`),
159 Deleted (`D`), Modified (`M`), Renamed (`R`), have their
160 type (i.e. regular file, symlink, submodule, ...) changed (`T`),
161 are Unmerged (`U`), are
162 Unknown (`X`), or have had their pairing Broken (`B`).
163 Any combination of the filter characters may be used.
164 When `*` (All-or-none) is added to the combination, all
165 paths are selected if there is any file that matches
166 other criteria in the comparison; if there is no file
167 that matches other criteria, nothing is selected.
169 --find-copies-harder::
170 For performance reasons, by default, `-C` option finds copies only
171 if the original file of the copy was modified in the same
172 changeset. This flag makes the command
173 inspect unmodified files as candidates for the source of
174 copy. This is a very expensive operation for large
175 projects, so use it with caution. Giving more than one
176 `-C` option has the same effect.
179 -M and -C options require O(n^2) processing time where n
180 is the number of potential rename/copy targets. This
181 option prevents rename/copy detection from running if
182 the number of rename/copy targets exceeds the specified
186 Look for differences that introduce or remove an instance of
187 <string>. Note that this is different than the string simply
188 appearing in diff output; see the 'pickaxe' entry in
189 linkgit:gitdiffcore[7] for more details.
192 When -S finds a change, show all the changes in that
193 changeset, not just the files that contain the change
197 Make the <string> not a plain string but an extended POSIX
201 Output the patch in the order specified in the
202 <orderfile>, which has one shell glob pattern per line.
205 Swap two inputs; that is, show differences from index or
206 on-disk file to tree contents.
208 --relative[=<path>]::
209 When run from a subdirectory of the project, it can be
210 told to exclude changes outside the directory and show
211 pathnames relative to it with this option. When you are
212 not in a subdirectory (e.g. in a bare repository), you
213 can name which subdirectory to make the output relative
214 to by giving a <path> as an argument.
218 Treat all files as text.
220 --ignore-space-at-eol::
221 Ignore changes in whitespace at EOL.
224 --ignore-space-change::
225 Ignore changes in amount of whitespace. This ignores whitespace
226 at line end, and considers all other sequences of one or
227 more whitespace characters to be equivalent.
231 Ignore whitespace when comparing lines. This ignores
232 differences even if one line has whitespace where the other
235 --inter-hunk-context=<lines>::
236 Show the context between diff hunks, up to the specified number
237 of lines, thereby fusing hunks that are close to each other.
240 Make the program exit with codes similar to diff(1).
241 That is, it exits with 1 if there were differences and
242 0 means no differences.
245 Disable all output of the program. Implies --exit-code.
248 Allow an external diff helper to be executed. If you set an
249 external diff driver with linkgit:gitattributes[5], you need
250 to use this option with linkgit:git-log[1] and friends.
253 Disallow external diff drivers.
255 --ignore-submodules::
256 Ignore changes to submodules in the diff generation.
258 --src-prefix=<prefix>::
259 Show the given source prefix instead of "a/".
261 --dst-prefix=<prefix>::
262 Show the given destination prefix instead of "b/".
265 Do not show any source or destination prefix.
267 For more detailed explanation on these common options, see also
268 linkgit:gitdiffcore[7].