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authorJunio C Hamano <junio@hera.kernel.org>2009-01-26 06:36:02 +0000
committerJunio C Hamano <junio@hera.kernel.org>2009-01-26 06:36:02 +0000
commit20d47e3f1442b9a7384b08ea40846c078f227a47 (patch)
tree0e2eafa5965e7d5044b5b7d3c6e5e16430b4865f /git-format-patch.html
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downloadgit-htmldocs-20d47e3f1442b9a7384b08ea40846c078f227a47.tar.gz
Autogenerated HTML docs for v1.6.1.1-223-gc30e5
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@@ -422,10 +422,14 @@ reference.</p></div>
Synonym for "-p --raw".
</p>
</dd>
-</dl></div>
-<div class="para"><p>--patience:
- Generate a diff using the "patience diff" algorithm.</p></div>
-<div class="vlist"><dl>
+<dt>
+--patience
+</dt>
+<dd>
+<p>
+ Generate a diff using the "patience diff" algorithm.
+</p>
+</dd>
<dt>
--stat[=width[,name-width]]
</dt>
@@ -542,12 +546,24 @@ reference.</p></div>
</p>
</dd>
<dt>
---color-words
+--color-words[=&lt;regex&gt;]
</dt>
<dd>
<p>
- Show colored word diff, i.e. color words which have changed.
+ Show colored word diff, i.e., color words which have changed.
+ By default, words are separated by whitespace.
</p>
+<div class="para"><p>When a &lt;regex&gt; is specified, every non-overlapping match of the
+&lt;regex&gt; is considered a word. Anything between these matches is
+considered whitespace and ignored(!) for the purposes of finding
+differences. You may want to append <tt>|[^[:space:]]</tt> to your regular
+expression to make sure that it matches all non-whitespace characters.
+A match that contains a newline is silently truncated(!) at the
+newline.</p></div>
+<div class="para"><p>The regex can also be set via a diff driver or configuration option, see
+<a href="gitattributes.html">gitattributes(1)</a> or <a href="git-config.html">git-config(1)</a>. Giving it explicitly
+overrides any diff driver or configuration setting. Diff drivers
+override configuration settings.</p></div>
</dd>
<dt>
--no-renames
@@ -1147,7 +1163,7 @@ as e-mailable patches:
</div>
<div id="footer">
<div id="footer-text">
-Last updated 2009-01-24 08:04:59 UTC
+Last updated 2009-01-26 06:35:38 UTC
</div>
</div>
</body>