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