From 8ebe185bbf3f1f4f59bcc61e3d1849a76f6af983 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jakub Narebski Date: Sun, 3 Dec 2006 17:24:41 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] 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 Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- Documentation/diff-options.txt | 16 ++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/diff-options.txt b/Documentation/diff-options.txt index e112172ca..9cdd171af 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]. -- 2.30.2