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--stat:: 11 Generate a diffstat instead of a patch. 12 13--summary:: 14 Output a condensed summary of extended header information 15 such as creations, renames and mode changes. 16 17--patch-with-stat:: 18 Generate patch and prepend its diffstat. 19 20-z:: 21 \0 line termination on output 22 23--name-only:: 24 Show only names of changed files. 25 26--name-status:: 27 Show only names and status of changed files. 28 29--full-index:: 30 Instead of the first handful characters, show full 31 object name of pre- and post-image blob on the "index" 32 line when generating a patch format output. 33 34--abbrev[=<n>]:: 35 Instead of showing the full 40-byte hexadecimal object 36 name in diff-raw format output and diff-tree header 37 lines, show only handful hexdigits prefix. This is 38 independent of --full-index option above, which controls 39 the diff-patch output format. Non default number of 40 digits can be specified with --abbrev=<n>. 41 42-B:: 43 Break complete rewrite changes into pairs of delete and create. 44 45-M:: 46 Detect renames. 47 48-C:: 49 Detect copies as well as renames. 50 51--diff-filter=[ACDMRTUXB*]:: 52 Select only files that are Added (`A`), Copied (`C`), 53 Deleted (`D`), Modified (`M`), Renamed (`R`), have their 54 type (mode) changed (`T`), are Unmerged (`U`), are 55 Unknown (`X`), or have had their pairing Broken (`B`). 56 Any combination of the filter characters may be used. 57 When `*` (All-or-none) is added to the combination, all 58 paths are selected if there is any file that matches 59 other criteria in the comparison; if there is no file 60 that matches other criteria, nothing is selected. 61 62--find-copies-harder:: 63 For performance reasons, by default, -C option finds copies only 64 if the original file of the copy was modified in the same 65 changeset. This flag makes the command 66 inspect unmodified files as candidates for the source of 67 copy. This is a very expensive operation for large 68 projects, so use it with caution. 69 70-l<num>:: 71 -M and -C options require O(n^2) processing time where n 72 is the number of potential rename/copy targets. This 73 option prevents rename/copy detection from running if 74 the number of rename/copy targets exceeds the specified 75 number. 76 77-S<string>:: 78 Look for differences that contain the change in <string>. 79 80--pickaxe-all:: 81 When -S finds a change, show all the changes in that 82 changeset, not just the files that contain the change 83 in <string>. 84 85--pickaxe-regex:: 86 Make the <string> not a plain string but an extended POSIX 87 regex to match. 88 89-O<orderfile>:: 90 Output the patch in the order specified in the 91 <orderfile>, which has one shell glob pattern per line. 92 93-R:: 94 Swap two inputs; that is, show differences from index or 95 on-disk file to tree contents. 96 97For more detailed explanation on these common options, see also 98link:diffcore.html[diffcore documentation].