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| author | jidanni@jidanni.org <jidanni@jidanni.org> | 2008-12-29 10:03:17 +0300 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2008-12-29 12:08:02 +0300 |
| commit | a9e67c8ccc6958d09c575a3d4837a49d8a2ec7d5 (patch) | |
| tree | 22c83e70bdfb4702a848fa24d4d29cc2307eb258 /Documentation/diff-options.txt | |
| parent | fb3bb3d1325f1d0a8cdc402a596c9a520b0ccbe6 (diff) | |
Documentation/diff-options.txt: unify options
Instead of listing short option (e.g. "-U<n>") as a shorthand for its
longer counterpart (e.g. "--unified=<n>"), list the synonyms together. It
saves one indirection to find what the reader wants.
Signed-off-by: jidanni <jidanni@jidanni.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/diff-options.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/diff-options.txt | 18 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 14 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/diff-options.txt b/Documentation/diff-options.txt index c62b45cdba..b432d2518a 100644 --- a/Documentation/diff-options.txt +++ b/Documentation/diff-options.txt @@ -19,16 +19,12 @@ endif::git-format-patch[] 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". @@ -190,31 +186,25 @@ endif::git-format-patch[] can name which subdirectory to make the output relative to by giving a <path> as an argument. +-a:: --text:: Treat all files as text. --a:: - Shorthand for "--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". - --exit-code:: Make the program exit with codes similar to diff(1). That is, it exits with 1 if there were differences and |