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+diff.autoRefreshIndex::
+	When using 'git diff' to compare with work tree
+	files, do not consider stat-only change as changed.
+	Instead, silently run `git update-index --refresh` to
+	update the cached stat information for paths whose
+	contents in the work tree match the contents in the
+	index.  This option defaults to true.  Note that this
+	affects only 'git diff' Porcelain, and not lower level
+	'diff' commands such as 'git diff-files'.
+
+diff.dirstat::
+	A comma separated list of `--dirstat` parameters specifying the
+	default behavior of the `--dirstat` option to linkgit:git-diff[1]
+	and friends. The defaults can be overridden on the command line
+	(using `--dirstat=<param1,param2,...>`). The fallback defaults
+	(when not changed by `diff.dirstat`) are `changes,noncumulative,3`.
+	The following parameters are available:
++
+--
+`changes`;;
+	Compute the dirstat numbers by counting the lines that have been
+	removed from the source, or added to the destination. This ignores
+	the amount of pure code movements within a file.  In other words,
+	rearranging lines in a file is not counted as much as other changes.
+	This is the default behavior when no parameter is given.
+`lines`;;
+	Compute the dirstat numbers by doing the regular line-based diff
+	analysis, and summing the removed/added line counts. (For binary
+	files, count 64-byte chunks instead, since binary files have no
+	natural concept of lines). This is a more expensive `--dirstat`
+	behavior than the `changes` behavior, but it does count rearranged
+	lines within a file as much as other changes. The resulting output
+	is consistent with what you get from the other `--*stat` options.
+`files`;;
+	Compute the dirstat numbers by counting the number of files changed.
+	Each changed file counts equally in the dirstat analysis. This is
+	the computationally cheapest `--dirstat` behavior, since it does
+	not have to look at the file contents at all.
+`cumulative`;;
+	Count changes in a child directory for the parent directory as well.
+	Note that when using `cumulative`, the sum of the percentages
+	reported may exceed 100%. The default (non-cumulative) behavior can
+	be specified with the `noncumulative` parameter.
+<limit>;;
+	An integer parameter specifies a cut-off percent (3% by default).
+	Directories contributing less than this percentage of the changes
+	are not shown in the output.
+--
++
+Example: The following will count changed files, while ignoring
+directories with less than 10% of the total amount of changed files,
+and accumulating child directory counts in the parent directories:
+`files,10,cumulative`.
+
+diff.statGraphWidth::
+	Limit the width of the graph part in --stat output. If set, applies
+	to all commands generating --stat output except format-patch.
+
+diff.context::
+	Generate diffs with <n> lines of context instead of the default
+	of 3. This value is overridden by the -U option.
+
+diff.interHunkContext::
+	Show the context between diff hunks, up to the specified number
+	of lines, thereby fusing the hunks that are close to each other.
+	This value serves as the default for the `--inter-hunk-context`
+	command line option.
+
+diff.external::
+	If this config variable is set, diff generation is not
+	performed using the internal diff machinery, but using the
+	given command.  Can be overridden with the `GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF'
+	environment variable.  The command is called with parameters
+	as described under "git Diffs" in linkgit:git[1].  Note: if
+	you want to use an external diff program only on a subset of
+	your files, you might want to use linkgit:gitattributes[5] instead.
+
+diff.ignoreSubmodules::
+	Sets the default value of --ignore-submodules. Note that this
+	affects only 'git diff' Porcelain, and not lower level 'diff'
+	commands such as 'git diff-files'. 'git checkout'
+	and 'git switch' also honor
+	this setting when reporting uncommitted changes. Setting it to
+	'all' disables the submodule summary normally shown by 'git commit'
+	and 'git status' when `status.submoduleSummary` is set unless it is
+	overridden by using the --ignore-submodules command-line option.
+	The 'git submodule' commands are not affected by this setting.
+
+diff.mnemonicPrefix::
+	If set, 'git diff' uses a prefix pair that is different from the
+	standard "a/" and "b/" depending on what is being compared.  When
+	this configuration is in effect, reverse diff output also swaps
+	the order of the prefixes:
+`git diff`;;
+	compares the (i)ndex and the (w)ork tree;
+`git diff HEAD`;;
+	 compares a (c)ommit and the (w)ork tree;
+`git diff --cached`;;
+	compares a (c)ommit and the (i)ndex;
+`git diff HEAD:file1 file2`;;
+	compares an (o)bject and a (w)ork tree entity;
+`git diff --no-index a b`;;
+	compares two non-git things (1) and (2).
+
+diff.noprefix::
+	If set, 'git diff' does not show any source or destination prefix.
+
+diff.orderFile::
+	File indicating how to order files within a diff.
+	See the '-O' option to linkgit:git-diff[1] for details.
+	If `diff.orderFile` is a relative pathname, it is treated as
+	relative to the top of the working tree.
+
+diff.renameLimit::
+	The number of files to consider when performing the copy/rename
+	detection; equivalent to the 'git diff' option `-l`. This setting
+	has no effect if rename detection is turned off.
+
+diff.renames::
+	Whether and how Git detects renames.  If set to "false",
+	rename detection is disabled. If set to "true", basic rename
+	detection is enabled.  If set to "copies" or "copy", Git will
+	detect copies, as well.  Defaults to true.  Note that this
+	affects only 'git diff' Porcelain like linkgit:git-diff[1] and
+	linkgit:git-log[1], and not lower level commands such as
+	linkgit:git-diff-files[1].
+
+diff.suppressBlankEmpty::
+	A boolean to inhibit the standard behavior of printing a space
+	before each empty output line. Defaults to false.
+
+diff.submodule::
+	Specify the format in which differences in submodules are
+	shown.  The "short" format just shows the names of the commits
+	at the beginning and end of the range. The "log" format lists
+	the commits in the range like linkgit:git-submodule[1] `summary`
+	does. The "diff" format shows an inline diff of the changed
+	contents of the submodule. Defaults to "short".
+
+diff.wordRegex::
+	A POSIX Extended Regular Expression used to determine what is a "word"
+	when performing word-by-word difference calculations.  Character
+	sequences that match the regular expression are "words", all other
+	characters are *ignorable* whitespace.
+
+diff.<driver>.command::
+	The custom diff driver command.  See linkgit:gitattributes[5]
+	for details.
+
+diff.<driver>.xfuncname::
+	The regular expression that the diff driver should use to
+	recognize the hunk header.  A built-in pattern may also be used.
+	See linkgit:gitattributes[5] for details.
+
+diff.<driver>.binary::
+	Set this option to true to make the diff driver treat files as
+	binary.  See linkgit:gitattributes[5] for details.
+
+diff.<driver>.textconv::
+	The command that the diff driver should call to generate the
+	text-converted version of a file.  The result of the
+	conversion is used to generate a human-readable diff.  See
+	linkgit:gitattributes[5] for details.
+
+diff.<driver>.wordRegex::
+	The regular expression that the diff driver should use to
+	split words in a line.  See linkgit:gitattributes[5] for
+	details.
+
+diff.<driver>.cachetextconv::
+	Set this option to true to make the diff driver cache the text
+	conversion outputs.  See linkgit:gitattributes[5] for details.
+
+diff.tool::
+	Controls which diff tool is used by linkgit:git-difftool[1].
+	This variable overrides the value configured in `merge.tool`.
+	The list below shows the valid built-in values.
+	Any other value is treated as a custom diff tool and requires
+	that a corresponding difftool.<tool>.cmd variable is defined.
+
+diff.guitool::
+	Controls which diff tool is used by linkgit:git-difftool[1] when
+	the -g/--gui flag is specified. This variable overrides the value
+	configured in `merge.guitool`. The list below shows the valid
+	built-in values. Any other value is treated as a custom diff tool
+	and requires that a corresponding difftool.<guitool>.cmd variable
+	is defined.
+
+include::../mergetools-diff.txt[]
+
+diff.indentHeuristic::
+	Set this option to `true` to enable experimental heuristics
+	that shift diff hunk boundaries to make patches easier to read.
+
+diff.algorithm::
+	Choose a diff algorithm.  The variants are as follows:
++
+--
+`default`, `myers`;;
+	The basic greedy diff algorithm. Currently, this is the default.
+`minimal`;;
+	Spend extra time to make sure the smallest possible diff is
+	produced.
+`patience`;;
+	Use "patience diff" algorithm when generating patches.
+`histogram`;;
+	This algorithm extends the patience algorithm to "support
+	low-occurrence common elements".
+--
++
+
+diff.wsErrorHighlight::
+	Highlight whitespace errors in the `context`, `old` or `new`
+	lines of the diff.  Multiple values are separated by comma,
+	`none` resets previous values, `default` reset the list to
+	`new` and `all` is a shorthand for `old,new,context`.  The
+	whitespace errors are colored with `color.diff.whitespace`.
+	The command line option `--ws-error-highlight=<kind>`
+	overrides this setting.
+
+diff.colorMoved::
+	If set to either a valid `<mode>` or a true value, moved lines
+	in a diff are colored differently, for details of valid modes
+	see '--color-moved' in linkgit:git-diff[1]. If simply set to
+	true the default color mode will be used. When set to false,
+	moved lines are not colored.
+
+diff.colorMovedWS::
+	When moved lines are colored using e.g. the `diff.colorMoved` setting,
+	this option controls the `<mode>` how spaces are treated
+	for details of valid modes see '--color-moved-ws' in linkgit:git-diff[1].