2 Generate patch (see section on generating patches)
8 Shorthand for "--unified=<n>".
11 Generate diffs with <n> lines of context instead of
12 the usual three. Implies "-p".
15 Generate the raw format.
18 Synonym for "-p --raw".
20 --stat[=width[,name-width]]::
21 Generate a diffstat. You can override the default
22 output width for 80-column terminal by "--stat=width".
23 The width of the filename part can be controlled by
24 giving another width to it separated by a comma.
27 Similar to \--stat, but shows number of added and
28 deleted lines in decimal notation and pathname without
29 abbreviation, to make it more machine friendly. For
30 binary files, outputs two `-` instead of saying
34 Output only the last line of the --stat format containing total
35 number of modified files, as well as number of added and deleted
39 Output a condensed summary of extended header information
40 such as creations, renames and mode changes.
43 Synonym for "-p --stat".
46 NUL-line termination on output. This affects the --raw
47 output field terminator. Also output from commands such
48 as "git-log" will be delimited with NUL between commits.
51 Show only names of changed files.
54 Show only names and status of changed files.
60 Turn off colored diff, even when the configuration file
61 gives the default to color output.
64 Show colored word diff, i.e. color words which have changed.
67 Turn off rename detection, even when the configuration
68 file gives the default to do so.
71 Warn if changes introduce trailing whitespace
72 or an indent that uses a space before a tab.
75 Instead of the first handful characters, show full
76 object name of pre- and post-image blob on the "index"
77 line when generating a patch format output.
80 In addition to --full-index, output "binary diff" that
81 can be applied with "git apply".
84 Instead of showing the full 40-byte hexadecimal object
85 name in diff-raw format output and diff-tree header
86 lines, show only handful hexdigits prefix. This is
87 independent of --full-index option above, which controls
88 the diff-patch output format. Non default number of
89 digits can be specified with --abbrev=<n>.
92 Break complete rewrite changes into pairs of delete and create.
98 Detect copies as well as renames. See also `--find-copies-harder`.
100 --diff-filter=[ACDMRTUXB*]::
101 Select only files that are Added (`A`), Copied (`C`),
102 Deleted (`D`), Modified (`M`), Renamed (`R`), have their
103 type (mode) changed (`T`), are Unmerged (`U`), are
104 Unknown (`X`), or have had their pairing Broken (`B`).
105 Any combination of the filter characters may be used.
106 When `*` (All-or-none) is added to the combination, all
107 paths are selected if there is any file that matches
108 other criteria in the comparison; if there is no file
109 that matches other criteria, nothing is selected.
111 --find-copies-harder::
112 For performance reasons, by default, `-C` option finds copies only
113 if the original file of the copy was modified in the same
114 changeset. This flag makes the command
115 inspect unmodified files as candidates for the source of
116 copy. This is a very expensive operation for large
117 projects, so use it with caution. Giving more than one
118 `-C` option has the same effect.
121 -M and -C options require O(n^2) processing time where n
122 is the number of potential rename/copy targets. This
123 option prevents rename/copy detection from running if
124 the number of rename/copy targets exceeds the specified
128 Look for differences that contain the change in <string>.
131 When -S finds a change, show all the changes in that
132 changeset, not just the files that contain the change
136 Make the <string> not a plain string but an extended POSIX
140 Output the patch in the order specified in the
141 <orderfile>, which has one shell glob pattern per line.
144 Swap two inputs; that is, show differences from index or
145 on-disk file to tree contents.
148 Treat all files as text.
151 Shorthand for "--text".
153 --ignore-space-at-eol::
154 Ignore changes in white spaces at EOL.
156 --ignore-space-change::
157 Ignore changes in amount of white space. This ignores white
158 space at line end, and consider all other sequences of one or
159 more white space characters to be equivalent.
162 Shorthand for "--ignore-space-change".
165 Ignore white space when comparing lines. This ignores
166 difference even if one line has white space where the other
170 Shorthand for "--ignore-all-space".
173 Make the program exit with codes similar to diff(1).
174 That is, it exits with 1 if there were differences and
175 0 means no differences.
178 Disable all output of the program. Implies --exit-code.
181 Allow an external diff helper to be executed. If you set an
182 external diff driver with gitlink:gitattributes[5], you need
183 to use this option with gitlink:git-log[1] and friends.
186 Disallow external diff drivers.
188 For more detailed explanation on these common options, see also
189 link:diffcore.html[diffcore documentation].