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>
diff --git a/Documentation/diff-options.txt b/Documentation/diff-options.txt index c62b45c..b432d25 100644 --- a/Documentation/diff-options.txt +++ b/Documentation/diff-options.txt
@@ -19,16 +19,12 @@ 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 @@ 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