diff: resurrect XDF_NEED_MINIMAL with --minimal

[git.git] / Documentation / diff-options.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/diff-options.txt b/Documentation/diff-options.txt
index 4235302ea48eea4daac9512f680fc4cfd877fb23..5c53bdba948ea817e01e169a9fc183d4fc2d1313 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/diff-options.txt
+++ b/Documentation/diff-options.txt
@@ -45,6 +45,10 @@ ifndef::git-format-patch[]
        Synonym for `-p --raw`.
 endif::git-format-patch[]
 
+--minimal::
+       Spend extra time to make sure the smallest possible
+       diff is produced.
+
 --patience::
        Generate a diff using the "patience diff" algorithm.
 
@@ -422,6 +426,17 @@ endif::git-format-patch[]
 --no-ext-diff::
        Disallow external diff drivers.
 
+--textconv::
+--no-textconv::
+       Allow (or disallow) external text conversion filters to be run
+       when comparing binary files. See linkgit:gitattributes[5] for
+       details. Because textconv filters are typically a one-way
+       conversion, the resulting diff is suitable for human
+       consumption, but cannot be applied. For this reason, textconv
+       filters are enabled by default only for linkgit:git-diff[1] and
+       linkgit:git-log[1], but not for linkgit:git-format-patch[1] or
+       diff plumbing commands.
+
 --ignore-submodules[=<when>]::
        Ignore changes to submodules in the diff generation. <when> can be
        either "none", "untracked", "dirty" or "all", which is the default