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@@ -422,6 +422,17 @@ 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