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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>
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jidanni@jidanni.org 16 years ago committed by Junio C Hamano
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@ -19,16 +19,12 @@ endif::git-format-patch[] @@ -19,16 +19,12 @@ endif::git-format-patch[]

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 @@ endif::git-format-patch[] @@ -190,31 +186,25 @@ endif::git-format-patch[]
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

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