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color-words: expand docs with precise semantics

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Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Thomas Rast 2009-01-17 17:29:47 +01:00 committed by Junio C Hamano
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@ -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.
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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