| -p:: |
| Generate patch (see section on generating patches) |
| |
| -u:: |
| Synonym for "-p". |
| |
| -z:: |
| \0 line termination on output |
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| --name-only:: |
| Show only names of changed files. |
| |
| --name-status:: |
| Show only names and status of changed files. |
| |
| --full-index:: |
| Instead of the first handful characters, show full |
| object name of pre- and post-image blob on the "index" |
| line when generating a patch format output. |
| |
| -B:: |
| Break complete rewrite changes into pairs of delete and create. |
| |
| -M:: |
| Detect renames. |
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| -C:: |
| Detect copies as well as renames. |
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| --find-copies-harder:: |
| For performance reasons, by default, -C option finds copies only |
| if the original file of the copy was modified in the same |
| changeset. This flag makes the command |
| inspect unmodified files as candidates for the source of |
| copy. This is a very expensive operation for large |
| projects, so use it with caution. |
| |
| -l<num>:: |
| -M and -C options require O(n^2) processing time where n |
| is the number of potential rename/copy targets. This |
| option prevents rename/copy detection from running if |
| the number of rename/copy targets exceeds the specified |
| number. |
| |
| -S<string>:: |
| Look for differences that contain the change in <string>. |
| |
| --pickaxe-all:: |
| When -S finds a change, show all the changes in that |
| changeset, not just the files that contain the change |
| in <string>. |
| |
| -O<orderfile>:: |
| Output the patch in the order specified in the |
| <orderfile>, which has one shell glob pattern per line. |
| |
| -R:: |
| Swap two inputs; that is, show differences from index or |
| on-disk file to tree contents. |
| |
| For more detailed explanation on these common options, see also |
| link:diffcore.html[diffcore documentation]. |