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