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. 6 7ifndef::git-format-patch[] 8ifndef::git-diff[] 9ifndef::git-log[] 10:git-diff-core: 1 11endif::git-log[] 12endif::git-diff[] 13endif::git-format-patch[] 14 15ifdef::git-format-patch[] 16-p:: 17--no-stat:: 18 Generate plain patches without any diffstats. 19endif::git-format-patch[] 20 21ifndef::git-format-patch[] 22-p:: 23-u:: 24--patch:: 25 Generate patch (see section on generating patches). 26ifdef::git-diff[] 27 This is the default. 28endif::git-diff[] 29endif::git-format-patch[] 30 31-s:: 32--no-patch:: 33 Suppress diff output. Useful for commands like `git show` that 34 show the patch by default, or to cancel the effect of `--patch`. 35 36-U<n>:: 37--unified=<n>:: 38 Generate diffs with <n> lines of context instead of 39 the usual three. 40ifndef::git-format-patch[] 41 Implies `-p`. 42endif::git-format-patch[] 43 44ifndef::git-format-patch[] 45--raw:: 46ifndef::git-log[] 47 Generate the diff in raw format. 48ifdef::git-diff-core[] 49 This is the default. 50endif::git-diff-core[] 51endif::git-log[] 52ifdef::git-log[] 53 For each commit, show a summary of changes using the raw diff 54 format. See the "RAW OUTPUT FORMAT" section of 55 linkgit:git-diff[1]. This is different from showing the log 56 itself in raw format, which you can achieve with 57 `--format=raw`. 58endif::git-log[] 59endif::git-format-patch[] 60 61ifndef::git-format-patch[] 62--patch-with-raw:: 63 Synonym for `-p --raw`. 64endif::git-format-patch[] 65 66--minimal:: 67 Spend extra time to make sure the smallest possible 68 diff is produced. 69 70--patience:: 71 Generate a diff using the "patience diff" algorithm. 72 73--histogram:: 74 Generate a diff using the "histogram diff" algorithm. 75 76--diff-algorithm={patience|minimal|histogram|myers}:: 77 Choose a diff algorithm. The variants are as follows: 78+ 79-- 80`default`, `myers`;; 81 The basic greedy diff algorithm. Currently, this is the default. 82`minimal`;; 83 Spend extra time to make sure the smallest possible diff is 84 produced. 85`patience`;; 86 Use "patience diff" algorithm when generating patches. 87`histogram`;; 88 This algorithm extends the patience algorithm to "support 89 low-occurrence common elements". 90-- 91+ 92For instance, if you configured diff.algorithm variable to a 93non-default value and want to use the default one, then you 94have to use `--diff-algorithm=default` option. 95 96--stat[=<width>[,<name-width>[,<count>]]]:: 97 Generate a diffstat. By default, as much space as necessary 98 will be used for the filename part, and the rest for the graph 99 part. Maximum width defaults to terminal width, or 80 columns 100 if not connected to a terminal, and can be overridden by 101 `<width>`. The width of the filename part can be limited by 102 giving another width `<name-width>` after a comma. The width 103 of the graph part can be limited by using 104 `--stat-graph-width=<width>` (affects all commands generating 105 a stat graph) or by setting `diff.statGraphWidth=<width>` 106 (does not affect `git format-patch`). 107 By giving a third parameter `<count>`, you can limit the 108 output to the first `<count>` lines, followed by `...` if 109 there are more. 110+ 111These parameters can also be set individually with `--stat-width=<width>`, 112`--stat-name-width=<name-width>` and `--stat-count=<count>`. 113 114--numstat:: 115 Similar to `--stat`, but shows number of added and 116 deleted lines in decimal notation and pathname without 117 abbreviation, to make it more machine friendly. For 118 binary files, outputs two `-` instead of saying 119 `0 0`. 120 121--shortstat:: 122 Output only the last line of the `--stat` format containing total 123 number of modified files, as well as number of added and deleted 124 lines. 125 126--dirstat[=<param1,param2,...>]:: 127 Output the distribution of relative amount of changes for each 128 sub-directory. The behavior of `--dirstat` can be customized by 129 passing it a comma separated list of parameters. 130 The defaults are controlled by the `diff.dirstat` configuration 131 variable (see linkgit:git-config[1]). 132 The following parameters are available: 133+ 134-- 135`changes`;; 136 Compute the dirstat numbers by counting the lines that have been 137 removed from the source, or added to the destination. This ignores 138 the amount of pure code movements within a file. In other words, 139 rearranging lines in a file is not counted as much as other changes. 140 This is the default behavior when no parameter is given. 141`lines`;; 142 Compute the dirstat numbers by doing the regular line-based diff 143 analysis, and summing the removed/added line counts. (For binary 144 files, count 64-byte chunks instead, since binary files have no 145 natural concept of lines). This is a more expensive `--dirstat` 146 behavior than the `changes` behavior, but it does count rearranged 147 lines within a file as much as other changes. The resulting output 148 is consistent with what you get from the other `--*stat` options. 149`files`;; 150 Compute the dirstat numbers by counting the number of files changed. 151 Each changed file counts equally in the dirstat analysis. This is 152 the computationally cheapest `--dirstat` behavior, since it does 153 not have to look at the file contents at all. 154`cumulative`;; 155 Count changes in a child directory for the parent directory as well. 156 Note that when using `cumulative`, the sum of the percentages 157 reported may exceed 100%. The default (non-cumulative) behavior can 158 be specified with the `noncumulative` parameter. 159<limit>;; 160 An integer parameter specifies a cut-off percent (3% by default). 161 Directories contributing less than this percentage of the changes 162 are not shown in the output. 163-- 164+ 165Example: The following will count changed files, while ignoring 166directories with less than 10% of the total amount of changed files, 167and accumulating child directory counts in the parent directories: 168`--dirstat=files,10,cumulative`. 169 170--summary:: 171 Output a condensed summary of extended header information 172 such as creations, renames and mode changes. 173 174ifndef::git-format-patch[] 175--patch-with-stat:: 176 Synonym for `-p --stat`. 177endif::git-format-patch[] 178 179ifndef::git-format-patch[] 180 181-z:: 182ifdef::git-log[] 183 Separate the commits with NULs instead of with new newlines. 184+ 185Also, when `--raw` or `--numstat` has been given, do not munge 186pathnames and use NULs as output field terminators. 187endif::git-log[] 188ifndef::git-log[] 189 When `--raw`, `--numstat`, `--name-only` or `--name-status` has been 190 given, do not munge pathnames and use NULs as output field terminators. 191endif::git-log[] 192+ 193Without this option, each pathname output will have TAB, LF, double quotes, 194and backslash characters replaced with `\t`, `\n`, `\"`, and `\\`, 195respectively, and the pathname will be enclosed in double quotes if 196any of those replacements occurred. 197 198--name-only:: 199 Show only names of changed files. 200 201--name-status:: 202 Show only names and status of changed files. See the description 203 of the `--diff-filter` option on what the status letters mean. 204 205--submodule[=<format>]:: 206 Specify how differences in submodules are shown. When `--submodule` 207 or `--submodule=log` is given, the 'log' format is used. This format lists 208 the commits in the range like linkgit:git-submodule[1] `summary` does. 209 Omitting the `--submodule` option or specifying `--submodule=short`, 210 uses the 'short' format. This format just shows the names of the commits 211 at the beginning and end of the range. Can be tweaked via the 212 `diff.submodule` configuration variable. 213 214--color[=<when>]:: 215 Show colored diff. 216 `--color` (i.e. without '=<when>') is the same as `--color=always`. 217 '<when>' can be one of `always`, `never`, or `auto`. 218ifdef::git-diff[] 219 It can be changed by the `color.ui` and `color.diff` 220 configuration settings. 221endif::git-diff[] 222 223--no-color:: 224 Turn off colored diff. 225ifdef::git-diff[] 226 This can be used to override configuration settings. 227endif::git-diff[] 228 It is the same as `--color=never`. 229 230--word-diff[=<mode>]:: 231 Show a word diff, using the <mode> to delimit changed words. 232 By default, words are delimited by whitespace; see 233 `--word-diff-regex` below. The <mode> defaults to 'plain', and 234 must be one of: 235+ 236-- 237color:: 238 Highlight changed words using only colors. Implies `--color`. 239plain:: 240 Show words as `[-removed-]` and `{+added+}`. Makes no 241 attempts to escape the delimiters if they appear in the input, 242 so the output may be ambiguous. 243porcelain:: 244 Use a special line-based format intended for script 245 consumption. Added/removed/unchanged runs are printed in the 246 usual unified diff format, starting with a `+`/`-`/` ` 247 character at the beginning of the line and extending to the 248 end of the line. Newlines in the input are represented by a 249 tilde `~` on a line of its own. 250none:: 251 Disable word diff again. 252-- 253+ 254Note that despite the name of the first mode, color is used to 255highlight the changed parts in all modes if enabled. 256 257--word-diff-regex=<regex>:: 258 Use <regex> to decide what a word is, instead of considering 259 runs of non-whitespace to be a word. Also implies 260 `--word-diff` unless it was already enabled. 261+ 262Every non-overlapping match of the 263<regex> is considered a word. Anything between these matches is 264considered whitespace and ignored(!) for the purposes of finding 265differences. You may want to append `|[^[:space:]]` to your regular 266expression to make sure that it matches all non-whitespace characters. 267A match that contains a newline is silently truncated(!) at the 268newline. 269+ 270For example, `--word-diff-regex=.` will treat each character as a word 271and, correspondingly, show differences character by character. 272+ 273The regex can also be set via a diff driver or configuration option, see 274linkgit:gitattributes[1] or linkgit:git-config[1]. Giving it explicitly 275overrides any diff driver or configuration setting. Diff drivers 276override configuration settings. 277 278--color-words[=<regex>]:: 279 Equivalent to `--word-diff=color` plus (if a regex was 280 specified) `--word-diff-regex=<regex>`. 281endif::git-format-patch[] 282 283--no-renames:: 284 Turn off rename detection, even when the configuration 285 file gives the default to do so. 286 287ifndef::git-format-patch[] 288--check:: 289 Warn if changes introduce whitespace errors. What are 290 considered whitespace errors is controlled by `core.whitespace` 291 configuration. By default, trailing whitespaces (including 292 lines that solely consist of whitespaces) and a space character 293 that is immediately followed by a tab character inside the 294 initial indent of the line are considered whitespace errors. 295 Exits with non-zero status if problems are found. Not compatible 296 with --exit-code. 297 298--ws-error-highlight=<kind>:: 299 Highlight whitespace errors on lines specified by <kind> 300 in the color specified by `color.diff.whitespace`. <kind> 301 is a comma separated list of `old`, `new`, `context`. When 302 this option is not given, only whitespace errors in `new` 303 lines are highlighted. E.g. `--ws-error-highlight=new,old` 304 highlights whitespace errors on both deleted and added lines. 305 `all` can be used as a short-hand for `old,new,context`. 306 The `diff.wsErrorHighlight` configuration variable can be 307 used to specify the default behaviour. 308 309endif::git-format-patch[] 310 311--full-index:: 312 Instead of the first handful of characters, show the full 313 pre- and post-image blob object names on the "index" 314 line when generating patch format output. 315 316--binary:: 317 In addition to `--full-index`, output a binary diff that 318 can be applied with `git-apply`. 319 320--abbrev[=<n>]:: 321 Instead of showing the full 40-byte hexadecimal object 322 name in diff-raw format output and diff-tree header 323 lines, show only a partial prefix. This is 324 independent of the `--full-index` option above, which controls 325 the diff-patch output format. Non default number of 326 digits can be specified with `--abbrev=<n>`. 327 328-B[<n>][/<m>]:: 329--break-rewrites[=[<n>][/<m>]]:: 330 Break complete rewrite changes into pairs of delete and 331 create. This serves two purposes: 332+ 333It affects the way a change that amounts to a total rewrite of a file 334not as a series of deletion and insertion mixed together with a very 335few lines that happen to match textually as the context, but as a 336single deletion of everything old followed by a single insertion of 337everything new, and the number `m` controls this aspect of the -B 338option (defaults to 60%). `-B/70%` specifies that less than 30% of the 339original should remain in the result for Git to consider it a total 340rewrite (i.e. otherwise the resulting patch will be a series of 341deletion and insertion mixed together with context lines). 342+ 343When used with -M, a totally-rewritten file is also considered as the 344source of a rename (usually -M only considers a file that disappeared 345as the source of a rename), and the number `n` controls this aspect of 346the -B option (defaults to 50%). `-B20%` specifies that a change with 347addition and deletion compared to 20% or more of the file's size are 348eligible for being picked up as a possible source of a rename to 349another file. 350 351-M[<n>]:: 352--find-renames[=<n>]:: 353ifndef::git-log[] 354 Detect renames. 355endif::git-log[] 356ifdef::git-log[] 357 If generating diffs, detect and report renames for each commit. 358 For following files across renames while traversing history, see 359 `--follow`. 360endif::git-log[] 361 If `n` is specified, it is a threshold on the similarity 362 index (i.e. amount of addition/deletions compared to the 363 file's size). For example, `-M90%` means Git should consider a 364 delete/add pair to be a rename if more than 90% of the file 365 hasn't changed. Without a `%` sign, the number is to be read as 366 a fraction, with a decimal point before it. I.e., `-M5` becomes 367 0.5, and is thus the same as `-M50%`. Similarly, `-M05` is 368 the same as `-M5%`. To limit detection to exact renames, use 369 `-M100%`. The default similarity index is 50%. 370 371-C[<n>]:: 372--find-copies[=<n>]:: 373 Detect copies as well as renames. See also `--find-copies-harder`. 374 If `n` is specified, it has the same meaning as for `-M<n>`. 375 376--find-copies-harder:: 377 For performance reasons, by default, `-C` option finds copies only 378 if the original file of the copy was modified in the same 379 changeset. This flag makes the command 380 inspect unmodified files as candidates for the source of 381 copy. This is a very expensive operation for large 382 projects, so use it with caution. Giving more than one 383 `-C` option has the same effect. 384 385-D:: 386--irreversible-delete:: 387 Omit the preimage for deletes, i.e. print only the header but not 388 the diff between the preimage and `/dev/null`. The resulting patch 389 is not meant to be applied with `patch` or `git apply`; this is 390 solely for people who want to just concentrate on reviewing the 391 text after the change. In addition, the output obviously lack 392 enough information to apply such a patch in reverse, even manually, 393 hence the name of the option. 394+ 395When used together with `-B`, omit also the preimage in the deletion part 396of a delete/create pair. 397 398-l<num>:: 399 The `-M` and `-C` options require O(n^2) processing time where n 400 is the number of potential rename/copy targets. This 401 option prevents rename/copy detection from running if 402 the number of rename/copy targets exceeds the specified 403 number. 404 405ifndef::git-format-patch[] 406--diff-filter=[(A|C|D|M|R|T|U|X|B)...[*]]:: 407 Select only files that are Added (`A`), Copied (`C`), 408 Deleted (`D`), Modified (`M`), Renamed (`R`), have their 409 type (i.e. regular file, symlink, submodule, ...) changed (`T`), 410 are Unmerged (`U`), are 411 Unknown (`X`), or have had their pairing Broken (`B`). 412 Any combination of the filter characters (including none) can be used. 413 When `*` (All-or-none) is added to the combination, all 414 paths are selected if there is any file that matches 415 other criteria in the comparison; if there is no file 416 that matches other criteria, nothing is selected. 417 418-S<string>:: 419 Look for differences that change the number of occurrences of 420 the specified string (i.e. addition/deletion) in a file. 421 Intended for the scripter's use. 422+ 423It is useful when you're looking for an exact block of code (like a 424struct), and want to know the history of that block since it first 425came into being: use the feature iteratively to feed the interesting 426block in the preimage back into `-S`, and keep going until you get the 427very first version of the block. 428 429-G<regex>:: 430 Look for differences whose patch text contains added/removed 431 lines that match <regex>. 432+ 433To illustrate the difference between `-S<regex> --pickaxe-regex` and 434`-G<regex>`, consider a commit with the following diff in the same 435file: 436+ 437---- 438+ return !regexec(regexp, two->ptr, 1, ®match, 0); 439... 440- hit = !regexec(regexp, mf2.ptr, 1, ®match, 0); 441---- 442+ 443While `git log -G"regexec\(regexp"` will show this commit, `git log 444-S"regexec\(regexp" --pickaxe-regex` will not (because the number of 445occurrences of that string did not change). 446+ 447See the 'pickaxe' entry in linkgit:gitdiffcore[7] for more 448information. 449 450--pickaxe-all:: 451 When `-S` or `-G` finds a change, show all the changes in that 452 changeset, not just the files that contain the change 453 in <string>. 454 455--pickaxe-regex:: 456 Treat the <string> given to `-S` as an extended POSIX regular 457 expression to match. 458endif::git-format-patch[] 459 460-O<orderfile>:: 461 Output the patch in the order specified in the 462 <orderfile>, which has one shell glob pattern per line. 463 This overrides the `diff.orderFile` configuration variable 464 (see linkgit:git-config[1]). To cancel `diff.orderFile`, 465 use `-O/dev/null`. 466 467ifndef::git-format-patch[] 468-R:: 469 Swap two inputs; that is, show differences from index or 470 on-disk file to tree contents. 471 472--relative[=<path>]:: 473 When run from a subdirectory of the project, it can be 474 told to exclude changes outside the directory and show 475 pathnames relative to it with this option. When you are 476 not in a subdirectory (e.g. in a bare repository), you 477 can name which subdirectory to make the output relative 478 to by giving a <path> as an argument. 479endif::git-format-patch[] 480 481-a:: 482--text:: 483 Treat all files as text. 484 485--ignore-space-at-eol:: 486 Ignore changes in whitespace at EOL. 487 488-b:: 489--ignore-space-change:: 490 Ignore changes in amount of whitespace. This ignores whitespace 491 at line end, and considers all other sequences of one or 492 more whitespace characters to be equivalent. 493 494-w:: 495--ignore-all-space:: 496 Ignore whitespace when comparing lines. This ignores 497 differences even if one line has whitespace where the other 498 line has none. 499 500--ignore-blank-lines:: 501 Ignore changes whose lines are all blank. 502 503--inter-hunk-context=<lines>:: 504 Show the context between diff hunks, up to the specified number 505 of lines, thereby fusing hunks that are close to each other. 506 507-W:: 508--function-context:: 509 Show whole surrounding functions of changes. 510 511ifndef::git-format-patch[] 512ifndef::git-log[] 513--exit-code:: 514 Make the program exit with codes similar to diff(1). 515 That is, it exits with 1 if there were differences and 516 0 means no differences. 517 518--quiet:: 519 Disable all output of the program. Implies `--exit-code`. 520endif::git-log[] 521endif::git-format-patch[] 522 523--ext-diff:: 524 Allow an external diff helper to be executed. If you set an 525 external diff driver with linkgit:gitattributes[5], you need 526 to use this option with linkgit:git-log[1] and friends. 527 528--no-ext-diff:: 529 Disallow external diff drivers. 530 531--textconv:: 532--no-textconv:: 533 Allow (or disallow) external text conversion filters to be run 534 when comparing binary files. See linkgit:gitattributes[5] for 535 details. Because textconv filters are typically a one-way 536 conversion, the resulting diff is suitable for human 537 consumption, but cannot be applied. For this reason, textconv 538 filters are enabled by default only for linkgit:git-diff[1] and 539 linkgit:git-log[1], but not for linkgit:git-format-patch[1] or 540 diff plumbing commands. 541 542--ignore-submodules[=<when>]:: 543 Ignore changes to submodules in the diff generation. <when> can be 544 either "none", "untracked", "dirty" or "all", which is the default. 545 Using "none" will consider the submodule modified when it either contains 546 untracked or modified files or its HEAD differs from the commit recorded 547 in the superproject and can be used to override any settings of the 548 'ignore' option in linkgit:git-config[1] or linkgit:gitmodules[5]. When 549 "untracked" is used submodules are not considered dirty when they only 550 contain untracked content (but they are still scanned for modified 551 content). Using "dirty" ignores all changes to the work tree of submodules, 552 only changes to the commits stored in the superproject are shown (this was 553 the behavior until 1.7.0). Using "all" hides all changes to submodules. 554 555--src-prefix=<prefix>:: 556 Show the given source prefix instead of "a/". 557 558--dst-prefix=<prefix>:: 559 Show the given destination prefix instead of "b/". 560 561--no-prefix:: 562 Do not show any source or destination prefix. 563 564For more detailed explanation on these common options, see also 565linkgit:gitdiffcore[7].