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diff --git a/Documentation/config/diff.txt b/Documentation/config/diff.txt index ff09f1c..5ce7b91 100644 --- a/Documentation/config/diff.txt +++ b/Documentation/config/diff.txt @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ diff.autoRefreshIndex:: When using 'git diff' to compare with work tree - files, do not consider stat-only change as changed. + files, do not consider stat-only changes as changed. Instead, silently run `git update-index --refresh` to update the cached stat information for paths whose contents in the work tree match the contents in the @@ -52,6 +52,10 @@ directories with less than 10% of the total amount of changed files, and accumulating child directory counts in the parent directories: `files,10,cumulative`. +diff.statNameWidth:: + Limit the width of the filename part in --stat output. If set, applies + to all commands generating --stat output except format-patch. + diff.statGraphWidth:: Limit the width of the graph part in --stat output. If set, applies to all commands generating --stat output except format-patch. @@ -85,6 +89,8 @@ diff.ignoreSubmodules:: and 'git status' when `status.submoduleSummary` is set unless it is overridden by using the --ignore-submodules command-line option. The 'git submodule' commands are not affected by this setting. + By default this is set to untracked so that any untracked + submodules are ignored. diff.mnemonicPrefix:: If set, 'git diff' uses a prefix pair that is different from the @@ -102,9 +108,19 @@ diff.mnemonicPrefix:: `git diff --no-index a b`;; compares two non-git things (1) and (2). -diff.noprefix:: +diff.noPrefix:: If set, 'git diff' does not show any source or destination prefix. +diff.srcPrefix:: + If set, 'git diff' uses this source prefix. Defaults to "a/". + +diff.dstPrefix:: + If set, 'git diff' uses this destination prefix. Defaults to "b/". + +diff.relative:: + If set to 'true', 'git diff' does not show changes outside of the directory + and show pathnames relative to the current directory. + diff.orderFile:: File indicating how to order files within a diff. See the '-O' option to linkgit:git-diff[1] for details. @@ -112,9 +128,10 @@ diff.orderFile:: relative to the top of the working tree. diff.renameLimit:: - The number of files to consider when performing the copy/rename - detection; equivalent to the 'git diff' option `-l`. This setting - has no effect if rename detection is turned off. + The number of files to consider in the exhaustive portion of + copy/rename detection; equivalent to the 'git diff' option + `-l`. If not set, the default value is currently 1000. This + setting has no effect if rename detection is turned off. diff.renames:: Whether and how Git detects renames. If set to "false", @@ -171,21 +188,6 @@ diff.<driver>.cachetextconv:: Set this option to true to make the diff driver cache the text conversion outputs. See linkgit:gitattributes[5] for details. -diff.tool:: - Controls which diff tool is used by linkgit:git-difftool[1]. - This variable overrides the value configured in `merge.tool`. - The list below shows the valid built-in values. - Any other value is treated as a custom diff tool and requires - that a corresponding difftool.<tool>.cmd variable is defined. - -diff.guitool:: - Controls which diff tool is used by linkgit:git-difftool[1] when - the -g/--gui flag is specified. This variable overrides the value - configured in `merge.guitool`. The list below shows the valid - built-in values. Any other value is treated as a custom diff tool - and requires that a corresponding difftool.<guitool>.cmd variable - is defined. - include::../mergetools-diff.txt[] diff.indentHeuristic:: @@ -227,5 +229,5 @@ diff.colorMoved:: diff.colorMovedWS:: When moved lines are colored using e.g. the `diff.colorMoved` setting, - this option controls the `<mode>` how spaces are treated - for details of valid modes see '--color-moved-ws' in linkgit:git-diff[1]. + this option controls the `<mode>` how spaces are treated. + For details of valid modes see '--color-moved-ws' in linkgit:git-diff[1]. |