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diff --git a/Documentation/diff-options.txt b/Documentation/diff-options.txt index 2c1fa4b10..8689a92d8 100644 --- a/Documentation/diff-options.txt +++ b/Documentation/diff-options.txt @@ -91,12 +91,17 @@ endif::git-format-patch[] Turn off colored diff, even when the configuration file gives the default to color output. ---color-words[=regex]:: - Show colored word diff, i.e. color words which have changed. +--color-words[=<regex>]:: + Show colored word diff, i.e., color words which have changed. + By default, words are separated by whitespace. + -Optionally, you can pass a regular expression that tells Git what the -words are that you are looking for; The default is to interpret any -stretch of non-whitespace as a word. +When a <regex> is specified, every non-overlapping match of the +<regex> is considered a word. Anything between these matches is +considered whitespace and ignored(!) for the purposes of finding +differences. You may want to append `|[^[:space:]]` 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. --no-renames:: Turn off rename detection, even when the configuration |