1-p:: 2 Generate patch (see section on generating patches) 3 4-u:: 5 Synonym for "-p". 6 7--raw:: 8 Generate the raw format. 9 10--patch-with-raw:: 11 Synonym for "-p --raw". 12 13--stat[=width[,name-width]]:: 14 Generate a diffstat. You can override the default 15 output width for 80-column terminal by "--stat=width". 16 The width of the filename part can be controlled by 17 giving another width to it separated by a comma. 18 19--numstat:: 20 Similar to \--stat, but shows number of added and 21 deleted lines in decimal notation and pathname without 22 abbreviation, to make it more machine friendly. For 23 binary files, outputs two `-` instead of saying 24 `0 0`. 25 26--shortstat:: 27 Output only the last line of the --stat format containing total 28 number of modified files, as well as number of added and deleted 29 lines. 30 31--summary:: 32 Output a condensed summary of extended header information 33 such as creations, renames and mode changes. 34 35--patch-with-stat:: 36 Synonym for "-p --stat". 37 38-z:: 39 \0 line termination on output 40 41--name-only:: 42 Show only names of changed files. 43 44--name-status:: 45 Show only names and status of changed files. 46 47--color:: 48 Show colored diff. 49 50--no-color:: 51 Turn off colored diff, even when the configuration file 52 gives the default to color output. 53 54--color-words:: 55 Show colored word diff, i.e. color words which have changed. 56 57--no-renames:: 58 Turn off rename detection, even when the configuration 59 file gives the default to do so. 60 61--check:: 62 Warn if changes introduce trailing whitespace 63 or an indent that uses a space before a tab. 64 65--full-index:: 66 Instead of the first handful characters, show full 67 object name of pre- and post-image blob on the "index" 68 line when generating a patch format output. 69 70--binary:: 71 In addition to --full-index, output "binary diff" that 72 can be applied with "git apply". 73 74--abbrev[=<n>]:: 75 Instead of showing the full 40-byte hexadecimal object 76 name in diff-raw format output and diff-tree header 77 lines, show only handful hexdigits prefix. This is 78 independent of --full-index option above, which controls 79 the diff-patch output format. Non default number of 80 digits can be specified with --abbrev=<n>. 81 82-B:: 83 Break complete rewrite changes into pairs of delete and create. 84 85-M:: 86 Detect renames. 87 88-C:: 89 Detect copies as well as renames. See also `--find-copies-harder`. 90 91--diff-filter=[ACDMRTUXB*]:: 92 Select only files that are Added (`A`), Copied (`C`), 93 Deleted (`D`), Modified (`M`), Renamed (`R`), have their 94 type (mode) changed (`T`), are Unmerged (`U`), are 95 Unknown (`X`), or have had their pairing Broken (`B`). 96 Any combination of the filter characters may be used. 97 When `*` (All-or-none) is added to the combination, all 98 paths are selected if there is any file that matches 99 other criteria in the comparison; if there is no file 100 that matches other criteria, nothing is selected. 101 102--find-copies-harder:: 103 For performance reasons, by default, `-C` option finds copies only 104 if the original file of the copy was modified in the same 105 changeset. This flag makes the command 106 inspect unmodified files as candidates for the source of 107 copy. This is a very expensive operation for large 108 projects, so use it with caution. Giving more than one 109 `-C` option has the same effect. 110 111-l<num>:: 112 -M and -C options require O(n^2) processing time where n 113 is the number of potential rename/copy targets. This 114 option prevents rename/copy detection from running if 115 the number of rename/copy targets exceeds the specified 116 number. 117 118-S<string>:: 119 Look for differences that contain the change in <string>. 120 121--pickaxe-all:: 122 When -S finds a change, show all the changes in that 123 changeset, not just the files that contain the change 124 in <string>. 125 126--pickaxe-regex:: 127 Make the <string> not a plain string but an extended POSIX 128 regex to match. 129 130-O<orderfile>:: 131 Output the patch in the order specified in the 132 <orderfile>, which has one shell glob pattern per line. 133 134-R:: 135 Swap two inputs; that is, show differences from index or 136 on-disk file to tree contents. 137 138--text:: 139 Treat all files as text. 140 141-a:: 142 Shorthand for "--text". 143 144--ignore-space-at-eol:: 145 Ignore changes in white spaces at EOL. 146 147--ignore-space-change:: 148 Ignore changes in amount of white space. This ignores white 149 space at line end, and consider all other sequences of one or 150 more white space characters to be equivalent. 151 152-b:: 153 Shorthand for "--ignore-space-change". 154 155--ignore-all-space:: 156 Ignore white space when comparing lines. This ignores 157 difference even if one line has white space where the other 158 line has none. 159 160-w:: 161 Shorthand for "--ignore-all-space". 162 163--exit-code:: 164 Make the program exit with codes similar to diff(1). 165 That is, it exits with 1 if there were differences and 166 0 means no differences. 167 168--quiet:: 169 Disable all output of the program. Implies --exit-code. 170 171--ext-diff:: 172 Allow an external diff helper to be executed. If you set an 173 external diff driver with gitlink:gitattributes(5), you need 174 to use this option with gitlink:git-log(1) and friends. 175 176--no-ext-diff:: 177 Disallow external diff drivers. 178 179For more detailed explanation on these common options, see also 180link:diffcore.html[diffcore documentation].