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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--full-index::
  17        Instead of the first handful characters, show full
  18        object name of pre- and post-image blob on the "index"
  19        line when generating a patch format output.     
  20
  21--abbrev::
  22        Instead of showing the full 40-byte hexadecimal object
  23        name in diff-raw format output and diff-tree header
  24        lines, show only handful prefix.  This is independent of
  25        --full-index option above, which controls the diff-patch
  26        output format.
  27
  28-B::
  29        Break complete rewrite changes into pairs of delete and create.
  30
  31-M::
  32        Detect renames.
  33
  34-C::
  35        Detect copies as well as renames.
  36
  37--find-copies-harder::
  38        For performance reasons, by default, -C option finds copies only 
  39        if the original file of the copy was modified in the same 
  40        changeset.  This flag makes the command
  41        inspect unmodified files as candidates for the source of
  42        copy.  This is a very expensive operation for large
  43        projects, so use it with caution.
  44
  45-l<num>::
  46        -M and -C options require O(n^2) processing time where n
  47        is the number of potential rename/copy targets.  This
  48        option prevents rename/copy detection from running if
  49        the number of rename/copy targets exceeds the specified
  50        number.
  51
  52-S<string>::
  53        Look for differences that contain the change in <string>.
  54
  55--pickaxe-all::
  56        When -S finds a change, show all the changes in that
  57        changeset, not just the files that contain the change
  58        in <string>.
  59
  60-O<orderfile>::
  61        Output the patch in the order specified in the
  62        <orderfile>, which has one shell glob pattern per line.
  63
  64-R::
  65        Swap two inputs; that is, show differences from index or
  66        on-disk file to tree contents.
  67
  68For more detailed explanation on these common options, see also
  69link:diffcore.html[diffcore documentation].