Subject: [PATCH] Fix diff-options references in git-diff and git-format-patch

From: Brian Gernhardt <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2007 22:27:44 -0500

Most of the git-diff-* documentation used [<common diff options>]
instead of [--diff-options], so make that change in git-diff and
git-format-patch.

In addition, git-format-patch didn't include the meanings of the diff
options.

Signed-off-by: Brian Gernhardt <[email-masked]>
---

On Mar 5, 2007, at 6:14 PM, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

> Actually, it is described briefly in the synopsis. But not in the
> options section. Care to provide a patch (see git-log.txt for an
> example how to include the diff options)?

Something like this?

 Documentation/git-diff.txt         |    2 +-
 Documentation/git-format-patch.txt |    6 ++++--
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/git-diff.txt b/Documentation/git-diff.txt
index 12a531d..044cee9 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-diff.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-diff.txt
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ git-diff - Show changes between commits, commit and working tree, etc
 
 SYNOPSIS
 --------
-'git-diff' [ --diff-options ] <commit>{0,2} [--] [<path>...]
+'git-diff' [<common diff options>] <commit>{0,2} [--] [<path>...]
 
 DESCRIPTION
 -----------
diff --git a/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt b/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt
index 59f34b9..84eabeb 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt
@@ -9,8 +9,8 @@ git-format-patch - Prepare patches for e-mail submission
 SYNOPSIS
 --------
 [verse]
-'git-format-patch' [-n | -k] [-o <dir> | --stdout] [--attach] [--thread]
-	           [-s | --signoff] [--diff-options] [--start-number <n>]
+'git-format-patch' [<common diff options>] [-n | -k] [-o <dir> | --stdout]
+		   [--attach] [--thread] [-s | --signoff] [--start-number <n>]
 		   [--in-reply-to=Message-Id] [--suffix=.<sfx>]
 		   [--ignore-if-in-upstream]
 		   <since>[..<until>]
@@ -46,6 +46,8 @@ reference.
 
 OPTIONS
 -------
+include::diff-options.txt[]
+
 -o|--output-directory <dir>::
 	Use <dir> to store the resulting files, instead of the
 	current working directory.
-- 
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