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diff --git a/Documentation/git-diff-tree.txt b/Documentation/git-diff-tree.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..906830d4bf --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/git-diff-tree.txt @@ -0,0 +1,169 @@ +git-diff-tree(1) +================ + +NAME +---- +git-diff-tree - Compares the content and mode of blobs found via two tree objects + + +SYNOPSIS +-------- +[verse] +'git-diff-tree' [--stdin] [-m] [-s] [-v] [--no-commit-id] [--pretty] + [-t] [-r] [-c | --cc] [--root] [<common diff options>] + <tree-ish> [<tree-ish>] [<path>...] + +DESCRIPTION +----------- +Compares the content and mode of the blobs found via two tree objects. + +If there is only one <tree-ish> given, the commit is compared with its parents +(see --stdin below). + +Note that "git-diff-tree" can use the tree encapsulated in a commit object. + +OPTIONS +------- +include::diff-options.txt[] + +<tree-ish>:: + The id of a tree object. + +<path>...:: + If provided, the results are limited to a subset of files + matching one of these prefix strings. + ie file matches `/^<pattern1>|<pattern2>|.../` + Note that this parameter does not provide any wildcard or regexp + features. + +-r:: + recurse into sub-trees + +-t:: + show tree entry itself as well as subtrees. Implies -r. + +--root:: + When '--root' is specified the initial commit will be showed as a big + creation event. This is equivalent to a diff against the NULL tree. + +--stdin:: + When '--stdin' is specified, the command does not take + <tree-ish> arguments from the command line. Instead, it + reads either one <commit> or a pair of <tree-ish> + separated with a single space from its standard input. ++ +When a single commit is given on one line of such input, it compares +the commit with its parents. The following flags further affects its +behaviour. This does not apply to the case where two <tree-ish> +separated with a single space are given. + +-m:: + By default, "git-diff-tree --stdin" does not show + differences for merge commits. With this flag, it shows + differences to that commit from all of its parents. See + also '-c'. + +-s:: + By default, "git-diff-tree --stdin" shows differences, + either in machine-readable form (without '-p') or in patch + form (with '-p'). This output can be suppressed. It is + only useful with '-v' flag. + +-v:: + This flag causes "git-diff-tree --stdin" to also show + the commit message before the differences. + +--pretty[=(raw|medium|short)]:: + This is used to control "pretty printing" format of the + commit message. Without "=<style>", it defaults to + medium. + +--no-commit-id:: + git-diff-tree outputs a line with the commit ID when + applicable. This flag suppressed the commit ID output. + +-c:: + This flag changes the way a merge commit is displayed + (which means it is useful only when the command is given + one <tree-ish>, or '--stdin'). It shows the differences + from each of the parents to the merge result simultaneously + instead of showing pairwise diff between a parent and the + result one at a time (which is what the '-m' option does). + Furthermore, it lists only files which were modified + from all parents. + +--cc:: + This flag changes the way a merge commit patch is displayed, + in a similar way to the '-c' option. It implies the '-c' + and '-p' options and further compresses the patch output + by omitting hunks that show differences from only one + parent, or show the same change from all but one parent + for an Octopus merge. When this optimization makes all + hunks disappear, the commit itself and the commit log + message is not shown, just like in any other "empty diff" case. + +--always:: + Show the commit itself and the commit log message even + if the diff itself is empty. + + +Limiting Output +--------------- +If you're only interested in differences in a subset of files, for +example some architecture-specific files, you might do: + + git-diff-tree -r <tree-ish> <tree-ish> arch/ia64 include/asm-ia64 + +and it will only show you what changed in those two directories. + +Or if you are searching for what changed in just `kernel/sched.c`, just do + + git-diff-tree -r <tree-ish> <tree-ish> kernel/sched.c + +and it will ignore all differences to other files. + +The pattern is always the prefix, and is matched exactly. There are no +wildcards. Even stricter, it has to match a complete path component. +I.e. "foo" does not pick up `foobar.h`. "foo" does match `foo/bar.h` +so it can be used to name subdirectories. + +An example of normal usage is: + + torvalds@ppc970:~/git> git-diff-tree 5319e4...... + *100664->100664 blob ac348b.......->a01513....... git-fsck-objects.c + +which tells you that the last commit changed just one file (it's from +this one: + +----------------------------------------------------------------------------- +commit 3c6f7ca19ad4043e9e72fa94106f352897e651a8 +tree 5319e4d609cdd282069cc4dce33c1db559539b03 +parent b4e628ea30d5ab3606119d2ea5caeab141d38df7 +author Linus Torvalds <torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org> Sat Apr 9 12:02:30 2005 +committer Linus Torvalds <torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org> Sat Apr 9 12:02:30 2005 + +Make "git-fsck-objects" print out all the root commits it finds. + +Once I do the reference tracking, I'll also make it print out all the +HEAD commits it finds, which is even more interesting. +----------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +in case you care). + +Output format +------------- +include::diff-format.txt[] + + +Author +------ +Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> + +Documentation +-------------- +Documentation by David Greaves, Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>. + +GIT +--- +Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite + |