2 Generate patch (see section on generating patches)
8 \0 line termination on output
11 Show only names of changed files.
14 Show only names and status of changed files.
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.
22 Instead of showing the full 40-byte hexadecimal object
23 name in diff-raw format output and diff-tree header
24 lines, show only handful hexdigits prefix. This is
25 independent of --full-index option above, which controls
26 the diff-patch output format. Non default number of
27 digits can be specified with --abbrev=<n>.
30 Break complete rewrite changes into pairs of delete and create.
36 Detect copies as well as renames.
38 --diff-filter=[ACDMRTUXB*]::
39 Select only files that are Added (`A`), Copied (`C`),
40 Deleted (`D`), Modified (`M`), Renamed (`R`), have their
41 type (mode) changed (`T`), are Unmerged (`U`), are
42 Unknown (`X`), or have had their pairing Broken (`B`).
43 Any combination of the filter characters may be used.
44 When `*` (All-or-none) is added to the combination, all
45 paths are selected if there is any file that matches
46 other criteria in the comparison; if there is no file
47 that matches other criteria, nothing is selected.
49 --find-copies-harder::
50 For performance reasons, by default, -C option finds copies only
51 if the original file of the copy was modified in the same
52 changeset. This flag makes the command
53 inspect unmodified files as candidates for the source of
54 copy. This is a very expensive operation for large
55 projects, so use it with caution.
58 -M and -C options require O(n^2) processing time where n
59 is the number of potential rename/copy targets. This
60 option prevents rename/copy detection from running if
61 the number of rename/copy targets exceeds the specified
65 Look for differences that contain the change in <string>.
68 When -S finds a change, show all the changes in that
69 changeset, not just the files that contain the change
73 Output the patch in the order specified in the
74 <orderfile>, which has one shell glob pattern per line.
77 Swap two inputs; that is, show differences from index or
78 on-disk file to tree contents.
80 For more detailed explanation on these common options, see also
81 link:diffcore.html[diffcore documentation].