-p:: Generate patch (see section on generating patches) -u:: Synonym for "-p". -z:: \0 line termination on output --name-only:: Show only names of changed files. --name-status:: Show only names and status of changed files. --full-index:: Instead of the first handful characters, show full object name of pre- and post-image blob on the "index" line when generating a patch format output. --abbrev[=]:: Instead of showing the full 40-byte hexadecimal object name in diff-raw format output and diff-tree header lines, show only handful hexdigits prefix. This is independent of --full-index option above, which controls the diff-patch output format. Non default number of digits can be specified with --abbrev=. -B:: Break complete rewrite changes into pairs of delete and create. -M:: Detect renames. -C:: Detect copies as well as renames. --find-copies-harder:: For performance reasons, by default, -C option finds copies only if the original file of the copy was modified in the same changeset. This flag makes the command inspect unmodified files as candidates for the source of copy. This is a very expensive operation for large projects, so use it with caution. -l:: -M and -C options require O(n^2) processing time where n is the number of potential rename/copy targets. This option prevents rename/copy detection from running if the number of rename/copy targets exceeds the specified number. -S:: Look for differences that contain the change in . --pickaxe-all:: When -S finds a change, show all the changes in that changeset, not just the files that contain the change in . -O:: Output the patch in the order specified in the , which has one shell glob pattern per line. -R:: Swap two inputs; that is, show differences from index or on-disk file to tree contents. For more detailed explanation on these common options, see also link:diffcore.html[diffcore documentation].