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   1-p::
   2        Generate patch (see section on generating patches)
   3
   4-u::
   5        Synonym for "-p".
   6
   7-z::
   8        \0 line termination on output
   9
  10--name-only::
  11        Show only names of changed files.
  12
  13--name-status::
  14        Show only names and status of changed files.
  15
  16-B::
  17        Break complete rewrite changes into pairs of delete and create.
  18
  19-M::
  20        Detect renames.
  21
  22-C::
  23        Detect copies as well as renames.
  24
  25--find-copies-harder::
  26        For performance reasons, by default, -C option finds copies only 
  27        if the original file of the copy was modified in the same 
  28        changeset.  This flag makes the command
  29        inspect unmodified files as candidates for the source of
  30        copy.  This is a very expensive operation for large
  31        projects, so use it with caution.
  32
  33-l<num>::
  34        -M and -C options require O(n^2) processing time where n
  35        is the number of potential rename/copy targets.  This
  36        option prevents rename/copy detection from running if
  37        the number of rename/copy targets exceeds the specified
  38        number.
  39
  40-S<string>::
  41        Look for differences that contain the change in <string>.
  42
  43--pickaxe-all::
  44        When -S finds a change, show all the changes in that
  45        changeset, not just the files that contain the change
  46        in <string>.
  47
  48-O<orderfile>::
  49        Output the patch in the order specified in the
  50        <orderfile>, which has one shell glob pattern per line.
  51
  52-R::
  53        Swap two inputs; that is, show differences from cache or
  54        on-disk file to tree contents.
  55
  56For more detailed explanation on these common options, see also
  57link:diffcore.html[diffcore documentation].