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