Documentation/diff-options.txt

   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 -B::
  22         Break complete rewrite changes into pairs of delete and create.
  23
  24 -M::
  25         Detect renames.
  26
  27 -C::
  28         Detect copies as well as renames.
  29
  30 --find-copies-harder::
  31         For performance reasons, by default, -C option finds copies only
  32         if the original file of the copy was modified in the same
  33         changeset.  This flag makes the command
  34         inspect unmodified files as candidates for the source of
  35         copy.  This is a very expensive operation for large
  36         projects, so use it with caution.
  37
  38 -l<num>::
  39         -M and -C options require O(n^2) processing time where n
  40         is the number of potential rename/copy targets.  This
  41         option prevents rename/copy detection from running if
  42         the number of rename/copy targets exceeds the specified
  43         number.
  44
  45 -S<string>::
  46         Look for differences that contain the change in <string>.
  47
  48 --pickaxe-all::
  49         When -S finds a change, show all the changes in that
  50         changeset, not just the files that contain the change
  51         in <string>.
  52
  53 -O<orderfile>::
  54         Output the patch in the order specified in the
  55         <orderfile>, which has one shell glob pattern per line.
  56
  57 -R::
  58         Swap two inputs; that is, show differences from index or
  59         on-disk file to tree contents.
  60
  61 For more detailed explanation on these common options, see also
  62 link:diffcore.html[diffcore documentation].