diff options
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/diff-options.txt | 9 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | diff.h | 2 |
2 files changed, 6 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/diff-options.txt b/Documentation/diff-options.txt index 3d1175e864..9e574a04d3 100644 --- a/Documentation/diff-options.txt +++ b/Documentation/diff-options.txt @@ -18,12 +18,13 @@ object name of pre- and post-image blob on the "index" line when generating a patch format output. ---abbrev:: +--abbrev[=<n>]:: Instead of showing the full 40-byte hexadecimal object name in diff-raw format output and diff-tree header - lines, show only handful prefix. This is independent of - --full-index option above, which controls the diff-patch - output format. + lines, show only handful dhexigits prefix. This is + independent of --full-index option above, which controls + the diff-patch output format. Non default number of + digits can be specified with --abbrev=<n>. -B:: Break complete rewrite changes into pairs of delete and create. @@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ extern void diffcore_std_no_resolve(struct diff_options *); " --name-only show only names of changed files.\n" \ " --name-status show names and status of changed files.\n" \ " --full-index show full object name on index lines.\n" \ -" --abbrev abbreviate object names in diff-tree header and diff-raw.\n" \ +" --abbrev=<n> abbreviate object names in diff-tree header and diff-raw.\n" \ " -R swap input file pairs.\n" \ " -B detect complete rewrites.\n" \ " -M detect renames.\n" \ |