1 diff.autoRefreshIndex::
2 When using 'git diff' to compare with work tree
3 files, do not consider stat-only change as changed.
4 Instead, silently run `git update-index --refresh` to
5 update the cached stat information for paths whose
6 contents in the work tree match the contents in the
7 index. This option defaults to true. Note that this
8 affects only 'git diff' Porcelain, and not lower level
9 'diff' commands such as 'git diff-files'.
12 A comma separated list of `--dirstat` parameters specifying the
13 default behavior of the `--dirstat` option to linkgit:git-diff[1]`
14 and friends. The defaults can be overridden on the command line
15 (using `--dirstat=<param1,param2,...>`). The fallback defaults
16 (when not changed by `diff.dirstat`) are `changes,noncumulative,3`.
17 The following parameters are available:
21 Compute the dirstat numbers by counting the lines that have been
22 removed from the source, or added to the destination. This ignores
23 the amount of pure code movements within a file. In other words,
24 rearranging lines in a file is not counted as much as other changes.
25 This is the default behavior when no parameter is given.
27 Compute the dirstat numbers by doing the regular line-based diff
28 analysis, and summing the removed/added line counts. (For binary
29 files, count 64-byte chunks instead, since binary files have no
30 natural concept of lines). This is a more expensive `--dirstat`
31 behavior than the `changes` behavior, but it does count rearranged
32 lines within a file as much as other changes. The resulting output
33 is consistent with what you get from the other `--*stat` options.
35 Compute the dirstat numbers by counting the number of files changed.
36 Each changed file counts equally in the dirstat analysis. This is
37 the computationally cheapest `--dirstat` behavior, since it does
38 not have to look at the file contents at all.
40 Count changes in a child directory for the parent directory as well.
41 Note that when using `cumulative`, the sum of the percentages
42 reported may exceed 100%. The default (non-cumulative) behavior can
43 be specified with the `noncumulative` parameter.
45 An integer parameter specifies a cut-off percent (3% by default).
46 Directories contributing less than this percentage of the changes
47 are not shown in the output.
50 Example: The following will count changed files, while ignoring
51 directories with less than 10% of the total amount of changed files,
52 and accumulating child directory counts in the parent directories:
53 `files,10,cumulative`.
56 Limit the width of the graph part in --stat output. If set, applies
57 to all commands generating --stat output except format-patch.
60 Generate diffs with <n> lines of context instead of the default
61 of 3. This value is overridden by the -U option.
63 diff.interHunkContext::
64 Show the context between diff hunks, up to the specified number
65 of lines, thereby fusing the hunks that are close to each other.
66 This value serves as the default for the `--inter-hunk-context`
70 If this config variable is set, diff generation is not
71 performed using the internal diff machinery, but using the
72 given command. Can be overridden with the `GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF'
73 environment variable. The command is called with parameters
74 as described under "git Diffs" in linkgit:git[1]. Note: if
75 you want to use an external diff program only on a subset of
76 your files, you might want to use linkgit:gitattributes[5] instead.
78 diff.ignoreSubmodules::
79 Sets the default value of --ignore-submodules. Note that this
80 affects only 'git diff' Porcelain, and not lower level 'diff'
81 commands such as 'git diff-files'. 'git checkout' also honors
82 this setting when reporting uncommitted changes. Setting it to
83 'all' disables the submodule summary normally shown by 'git commit'
84 and 'git status' when `status.submoduleSummary` is set unless it is
85 overridden by using the --ignore-submodules command-line option.
86 The 'git submodule' commands are not affected by this setting.
89 If set, 'git diff' uses a prefix pair that is different from the
90 standard "a/" and "b/" depending on what is being compared. When
91 this configuration is in effect, reverse diff output also swaps
92 the order of the prefixes:
94 compares the (i)ndex and the (w)ork tree;
96 compares a (c)ommit and the (w)ork tree;
98 compares a (c)ommit and the (i)ndex;
99 `git diff HEAD:file1 file2`;;
100 compares an (o)bject and a (w)ork tree entity;
101 `git diff --no-index a b`;;
102 compares two non-git things (1) and (2).
105 If set, 'git diff' does not show any source or destination prefix.
108 File indicating how to order files within a diff.
109 See the '-O' option to linkgit:git-diff[1] for details.
110 If `diff.orderFile` is a relative pathname, it is treated as
111 relative to the top of the working tree.
114 The number of files to consider when performing the copy/rename
115 detection; equivalent to the 'git diff' option `-l`. This setting
116 has no effect if rename detection is turned off.
119 Whether and how Git detects renames. If set to "false",
120 rename detection is disabled. If set to "true", basic rename
121 detection is enabled. If set to "copies" or "copy", Git will
122 detect copies, as well. Defaults to true. Note that this
123 affects only 'git diff' Porcelain like linkgit:git-diff[1] and
124 linkgit:git-log[1], and not lower level commands such as
125 linkgit:git-diff-files[1].
127 diff.suppressBlankEmpty::
128 A boolean to inhibit the standard behavior of printing a space
129 before each empty output line. Defaults to false.
132 Specify the format in which differences in submodules are
133 shown. The "short" format just shows the names of the commits
134 at the beginning and end of the range. The "log" format lists
135 the commits in the range like linkgit:git-submodule[1] `summary`
136 does. The "diff" format shows an inline diff of the changed
137 contents of the submodule. Defaults to "short".
140 A POSIX Extended Regular Expression used to determine what is a "word"
141 when performing word-by-word difference calculations. Character
142 sequences that match the regular expression are "words", all other
143 characters are *ignorable* whitespace.
145 diff.<driver>.command::
146 The custom diff driver command. See linkgit:gitattributes[5]
149 diff.<driver>.xfuncname::
150 The regular expression that the diff driver should use to
151 recognize the hunk header. A built-in pattern may also be used.
152 See linkgit:gitattributes[5] for details.
154 diff.<driver>.binary::
155 Set this option to true to make the diff driver treat files as
156 binary. See linkgit:gitattributes[5] for details.
158 diff.<driver>.textconv::
159 The command that the diff driver should call to generate the
160 text-converted version of a file. The result of the
161 conversion is used to generate a human-readable diff. See
162 linkgit:gitattributes[5] for details.
164 diff.<driver>.wordRegex::
165 The regular expression that the diff driver should use to
166 split words in a line. See linkgit:gitattributes[5] for
169 diff.<driver>.cachetextconv::
170 Set this option to true to make the diff driver cache the text
171 conversion outputs. See linkgit:gitattributes[5] for details.
174 Controls which diff tool is used by linkgit:git-difftool[1].
175 This variable overrides the value configured in `merge.tool`.
176 The list below shows the valid built-in values.
177 Any other value is treated as a custom diff tool and requires
178 that a corresponding difftool.<tool>.cmd variable is defined.
180 include::mergetools-diff.txt[]
182 diff.indentHeuristic::
183 Set this option to `true` to enable experimental heuristics
184 that shift diff hunk boundaries to make patches easier to read.
187 Choose a diff algorithm. The variants are as follows:
191 The basic greedy diff algorithm. Currently, this is the default.
193 Spend extra time to make sure the smallest possible diff is
196 Use "patience diff" algorithm when generating patches.
198 This algorithm extends the patience algorithm to "support
199 low-occurrence common elements".
203 diff.wsErrorHighlight::
204 Highlight whitespace errors in the `context`, `old` or `new`
205 lines of the diff. Multiple values are separated by comma,
206 `none` resets previous values, `default` reset the list to
207 `new` and `all` is a shorthand for `old,new,context`. The
208 whitespace errors are colored with `color.diff.whitespace`.
209 The command line option `--ws-error-highlight=<kind>`
210 overrides this setting.
213 If set to either a valid `<mode>` or a true value, moved lines
214 in a diff are colored differently, for details of valid modes
215 see '--color-moved' in linkgit:git-diff[1]. If simply set to
216 true the default color mode will be used. When set to false,
217 moved lines are not colored.
220 When moved lines are colored using e.g. the `diff.colorMoved` setting,
221 this option controls the `<mode>` how spaces are treated
222 for details of valid modes see '--color-moved-ws' in linkgit:git-diff[1].