2 Generate patch (see section on generating patches)
8 Look recursively in subdirectories; only used by "git-diff-tree";
9 other diff commands always work recursively.
12 \0 line termination on output
15 Show only names of changed files.
18 Show only names and status of changed files.
21 Break complete rewrite changes into pairs of delete and create.
27 Detect copies as well as renames.
29 --find-copies-harder::
30 For performance reasons, by default, -C option finds copies only
31 if the original file of the copy was modified in the same
32 changeset. This flag makes the command
33 inspect unmodified files as candidates for the source of
34 copy. This is a very expensive operation for large
35 projects, so use it with caution.
38 -M and -C options require O(n^2) processing time where n
39 is the number of potential rename/copy targets. This
40 option prevents rename/copy detection from running if
41 the number of rename/copy targets exceeds the specified
45 Look for differences that contain the change in <string>.
48 When -S finds a change, show all the changes in that
49 changeset, not just the files that contain the change
53 Output the patch in the order specified in the
54 <orderfile>, which has one shell glob pattern per line.
57 Swap two inputs; that is, show differences from cache or
58 on-disk file to tree contents.
60 For more detailed explanation on these common options, see also
61 link:diffcore.html[diffcore documentation].