1-p:: 2 Generate patch (see section on generating patches) 3 4-u:: 5 Synonym for "-p". 6 7--patch-with-raw:: 8 Generate patch but keep also the default raw diff output. 9 10-z:: 11 \0 line termination on output 12 13--name-only:: 14 Show only names of changed files. 15 16--name-status:: 17 Show only names and status of changed files. 18 19--full-index:: 20 Instead of the first handful characters, show full 21 object name of pre- and post-image blob on the "index" 22 line when generating a patch format output. 23 24--abbrev[=<n>]:: 25 Instead of showing the full 40-byte hexadecimal object 26 name in diff-raw format output and diff-tree header 27 lines, show only handful hexdigits prefix. This is 28 independent of --full-index option above, which controls 29 the diff-patch output format. Non default number of 30 digits can be specified with --abbrev=<n>. 31 32-B:: 33 Break complete rewrite changes into pairs of delete and create. 34 35-M:: 36 Detect renames. 37 38-C:: 39 Detect copies as well as renames. 40 41--diff-filter=[ACDMRTUXB*]:: 42 Select only files that are Added (`A`), Copied (`C`), 43 Deleted (`D`), Modified (`M`), Renamed (`R`), have their 44 type (mode) changed (`T`), are Unmerged (`U`), are 45 Unknown (`X`), or have had their pairing Broken (`B`). 46 Any combination of the filter characters may be used. 47 When `*` (All-or-none) is added to the combination, all 48 paths are selected if there is any file that matches 49 other criteria in the comparison; if there is no file 50 that matches other criteria, nothing is selected. 51 52--find-copies-harder:: 53 For performance reasons, by default, -C option finds copies only 54 if the original file of the copy was modified in the same 55 changeset. This flag makes the command 56 inspect unmodified files as candidates for the source of 57 copy. This is a very expensive operation for large 58 projects, so use it with caution. 59 60-l<num>:: 61 -M and -C options require O(n^2) processing time where n 62 is the number of potential rename/copy targets. This 63 option prevents rename/copy detection from running if 64 the number of rename/copy targets exceeds the specified 65 number. 66 67-S<string>:: 68 Look for differences that contain the change in <string>. 69 70--pickaxe-all:: 71 When -S finds a change, show all the changes in that 72 changeset, not just the files that contain the change 73 in <string>. 74 75--pickaxe-regex:: 76 Make the <string> not a plain string but an extended POSIX 77 regex to match. 78 79-O<orderfile>:: 80 Output the patch in the order specified in the 81 <orderfile>, which has one shell glob pattern per line. 82 83-R:: 84 Swap two inputs; that is, show differences from index or 85 on-disk file to tree contents. 86 87For more detailed explanation on these common options, see also 88link:diffcore.html[diffcore documentation].