ifndef::git-format-patch[]

-p::

Generate patch (see section on generating patches).

{git-diff? This is the default.}

endif::git-format-patch[]

-U<n>::

--unified=<n>::

Generate diffs with <n> lines of context instead of

the usual three. Implies "-p".

can name which subdirectory to make the output relative

to by giving a <path> as an argument.

--text::

Treat all files as text.

--ignore-space-at-eol::

Ignore changes in whitespace at EOL.

--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.

--ignore-all-space::

Ignore whitespace when comparing lines. This ignores

differences even if one line has whitespace where the other

line has none.

--exit-code::

Make the program exit with codes similar to diff(1).

That is, it exits with 1 if there were differences and