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