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