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1 | git-diff-tree(1) |
2 | ================ | |
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3 | |
4 | NAME | |
5 | ---- | |
6 | git-diff-tree - Compares the content and mode of blobs found via two tree objects | |
7 | ||
8 | ||
9 | SYNOPSIS | |
10 | -------- | |
353ce815 | 11 | [verse] |
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12 | 'git-diff-tree' [--stdin] [-m] [-s] [-v] [--no-commit-id] [--pretty] |
13 | [-t] [-r] [-c | --cc] [--root] [<common diff options>] | |
14 | <tree-ish> [<tree-ish>] [<path>...] | |
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15 | |
16 | DESCRIPTION | |
17 | ----------- | |
18 | Compares the content and mode of the blobs found via two tree objects. | |
19 | ||
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20 | If there is only one <tree-ish> given, the commit is compared with its parents |
21 | (see --stdin below). | |
22 | ||
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23 | Note that "git-diff-tree" can use the tree encapsulated in a commit object. |
24 | ||
25 | OPTIONS | |
26 | ------- | |
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27 | include::diff-options.txt[] |
28 | ||
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29 | <tree-ish>:: |
30 | The id of a tree object. | |
31 | ||
232b75ab | 32 | <path>...:: |
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33 | If provided, the results are limited to a subset of files |
34 | matching one of these prefix strings. | |
abda1ef5 | 35 | i.e., file matches `/^<pattern1>|<pattern2>|.../` |
232b75ab | 36 | Note that this parameter does not provide any wildcard or regexp |
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37 | features. |
38 | ||
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39 | -r:: |
40 | recurse into sub-trees | |
41 | ||
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42 | -t:: |
43 | show tree entry itself as well as subtrees. Implies -r. | |
44 | ||
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45 | --root:: |
46 | When '--root' is specified the initial commit will be showed as a big | |
47 | creation event. This is equivalent to a diff against the NULL tree. | |
48 | ||
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49 | --stdin:: |
50 | When '--stdin' is specified, the command does not take | |
51 | <tree-ish> arguments from the command line. Instead, it | |
52 | reads either one <commit> or a pair of <tree-ish> | |
53 | separated with a single space from its standard input. | |
54 | + | |
55 | When a single commit is given on one line of such input, it compares | |
56 | the commit with its parents. The following flags further affects its | |
abda1ef5 | 57 | behavior. This does not apply to the case where two <tree-ish> |
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58 | separated with a single space are given. |
59 | ||
60 | -m:: | |
61 | By default, "git-diff-tree --stdin" does not show | |
62 | differences for merge commits. With this flag, it shows | |
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63 | differences to that commit from all of its parents. See |
64 | also '-c'. | |
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65 | |
66 | -s:: | |
67 | By default, "git-diff-tree --stdin" shows differences, | |
68 | either in machine-readable form (without '-p') or in patch | |
89438677 | 69 | form (with '-p'). This output can be suppressed. It is |
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70 | only useful with '-v' flag. |
71 | ||
72 | -v:: | |
73 | This flag causes "git-diff-tree --stdin" to also show | |
74 | the commit message before the differences. | |
75 | ||
5d1faf87 | 76 | include::pretty-formats.txt[] |
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78 | --no-commit-id:: |
79 | git-diff-tree outputs a line with the commit ID when | |
80 | applicable. This flag suppressed the commit ID output. | |
81 | ||
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82 | -c:: |
83 | This flag changes the way a merge commit is displayed | |
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84 | (which means it is useful only when the command is given |
85 | one <tree-ish>, or '--stdin'). It shows the differences | |
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86 | from each of the parents to the merge result simultaneously |
87 | instead of showing pairwise diff between a parent and the | |
88 | result one at a time (which is what the '-m' option does). | |
89 | Furthermore, it lists only files which were modified | |
90 | from all parents. | |
91 | ||
de5f2bf3 | 92 | --cc:: |
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93 | This flag changes the way a merge commit patch is displayed, |
94 | in a similar way to the '-c' option. It implies the '-c' | |
95 | and '-p' options and further compresses the patch output | |
96 | by omitting hunks that show differences from only one | |
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97 | parent, or show the same change from all but one parent |
98 | for an Octopus merge. When this optimization makes all | |
99 | hunks disappear, the commit itself and the commit log | |
a13ba129 | 100 | message is not shown, just like in any other "empty diff" case. |
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102 | --always:: |
103 | Show the commit itself and the commit log message even | |
104 | if the diff itself is empty. | |
105 | ||
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106 | |
107 | Limiting Output | |
108 | --------------- | |
109 | If you're only interested in differences in a subset of files, for | |
110 | example some architecture-specific files, you might do: | |
111 | ||
112 | git-diff-tree -r <tree-ish> <tree-ish> arch/ia64 include/asm-ia64 | |
113 | ||
114 | and it will only show you what changed in those two directories. | |
115 | ||
116 | Or if you are searching for what changed in just `kernel/sched.c`, just do | |
117 | ||
118 | git-diff-tree -r <tree-ish> <tree-ish> kernel/sched.c | |
119 | ||
120 | and it will ignore all differences to other files. | |
121 | ||
122 | The pattern is always the prefix, and is matched exactly. There are no | |
2c6e4771 | 123 | wildcards. Even stricter, it has to match a complete path component. |
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124 | I.e. "foo" does not pick up `foobar.h`. "foo" does match `foo/bar.h` |
125 | so it can be used to name subdirectories. | |
126 | ||
127 | An example of normal usage is: | |
128 | ||
129 | torvalds@ppc970:~/git> git-diff-tree 5319e4...... | |
215a7ad1 | 130 | *100664->100664 blob ac348b.......->a01513....... git-fsck-objects.c |
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131 | |
132 | which tells you that the last commit changed just one file (it's from | |
133 | this one: | |
134 | ||
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135 | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
136 | commit 3c6f7ca19ad4043e9e72fa94106f352897e651a8 | |
137 | tree 5319e4d609cdd282069cc4dce33c1db559539b03 | |
138 | parent b4e628ea30d5ab3606119d2ea5caeab141d38df7 | |
139 | author Linus Torvalds <torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org> Sat Apr 9 12:02:30 2005 | |
140 | committer Linus Torvalds <torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org> Sat Apr 9 12:02:30 2005 | |
141 | ||
142 | Make "git-fsck-objects" print out all the root commits it finds. | |
143 | ||
144 | Once I do the reference tracking, I'll also make it print out all the | |
145 | HEAD commits it finds, which is even more interesting. | |
146 | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |
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147 | |
148 | in case you care). | |
149 | ||
150 | Output format | |
151 | ------------- | |
152 | include::diff-format.txt[] | |
153 | ||
154 | ||
155 | Author | |
156 | ------ | |
157 | Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> | |
158 | ||
159 | Documentation | |
160 | -------------- | |
161 | Documentation by David Greaves, Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>. | |
162 | ||
163 | GIT | |
164 | --- | |
a7154e91 | 165 | Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite |
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