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| author | Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> | 2006-12-03 19:24:41 +0300 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> | 2006-12-05 03:30:54 +0300 |
| commit | 8ebe185bbf3f1f4f59bcc61e3d1849a76f6af983 (patch) | |
| tree | 431b7835c95350582cd8f6c02440a7f5e258087b /Documentation/diff-options.txt | |
| parent | c7c24889bb694f93a12f41a28fab26d30e571c17 (diff) | |
Document git-diff whitespace flags -b and -w
Document git diff options -b / --ignore-space-change and
-w / --ignore-all-space, introduced by Johannes Schindelin
in commit 0d21efa5, "Teach diff about -b and -w flags".
The description of options is taken from GNU diff man page and
GNU Diffutils info documentation.
Signed-off-by: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/diff-options.txt')
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diff --git a/Documentation/diff-options.txt b/Documentation/diff-options.txt index e112172ca5..9cdd171af7 100644 --- a/Documentation/diff-options.txt +++ b/Documentation/diff-options.txt @@ -129,5 +129,21 @@ -a:: Shorthand for "--text". +--ignore-space-change:: + Ignore changes in amount of white space. This ignores white + space at line end, and consider all other sequences of one or + more white space characters to be equivalent. + +-b:: + Shorthand for "--ignore-space-change". + +--ignore-all-space:: + Ignore white space when comparing lines. This ignores + difference even if one line has white space where the other + line has none. + +-w:: + Shorthand for "--ignore-all-space". + For more detailed explanation on these common options, see also link:diffcore.html[diffcore documentation]. |