1git-diff-tree(1) 2================ 3 4NAME 5---- 6git-diff-tree - Compares the content and mode of blobs found via two tree objects 7 8 9SYNOPSIS 10-------- 11[verse] 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>...] 15 16DESCRIPTION 17----------- 18Compares the content and mode of the blobs found via two tree objects. 19 20If there is only one <tree-ish> given, the commit is compared with its parents 21(see --stdin below). 22 23Note that "git-diff-tree" can use the tree encapsulated in a commit object. 24 25OPTIONS 26------- 27include::diff-options.txt[] 28 29<tree-ish>:: 30 The id of a tree object. 31 32<path>...:: 33 If provided, the results are limited to a subset of files 34 matching one of these prefix strings. 35 ie file matches `/^<pattern1>|<pattern2>|.../` 36 Note that this parameter does not provide any wildcard or regexp 37 features. 38 39-r:: 40 recurse into sub-trees 41 42-t:: 43 show tree entry itself as well as subtrees. Implies -r. 44 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 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+ 55When a single commit is given on one line of such input, it compares 56the commit with its parents. The following flags further affects its 57behaviour. This does not apply to the case where two <tree-ish> 58separated 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 63 differences to that commit from all of its parents. 64 65-s:: 66 By default, "git-diff-tree --stdin" shows differences, 67 either in machine-readable form (without '-p') or in patch 68 form (with '-p'). This output can be suppressed. It is 69 only useful with '-v' flag. 70 71-v:: 72 This flag causes "git-diff-tree --stdin" to also show 73 the commit message before the differences. 74 75--pretty[=(raw|medium|short)]:: 76 This is used to control "pretty printing" format of the 77 commit message. Without "=<style>", it defaults to 78 medium. 79 80--no-commit-id:: 81 git-diff-tree outputs a line with the commit ID when 82 applicable. This flag suppressed the commit ID output. 83 84-c,--cc:: 85 These flags change the way a merge commit is displayed 86 (which means it is useful only when the command is given 87 one <tree-ish>, or '--stdin'). It shows the differences 88 from each of the parents to the merge result 89 simultaneously, instead of showing pairwise diff between 90 a parent and the result one at a time, which '-m' option 91 output does. '--cc' further compresses the output by 92 omiting hunks that show differences from only one 93 parent, or show the same change from all but one parent 94 for an Octopus merge. When this optimization makes all 95 hunks disappear, the commit itself and the commit log 96 message is not shown, just like any other "empty diff" cases. 97 98 99Limiting Output 100--------------- 101If you're only interested in differences in a subset of files, for 102example some architecture-specific files, you might do: 103 104 git-diff-tree -r <tree-ish> <tree-ish> arch/ia64 include/asm-ia64 105 106and it will only show you what changed in those two directories. 107 108Or if you are searching for what changed in just `kernel/sched.c`, just do 109 110 git-diff-tree -r <tree-ish> <tree-ish> kernel/sched.c 111 112and it will ignore all differences to other files. 113 114The pattern is always the prefix, and is matched exactly. There are no 115wildcards. Even stricter, it has to match a complete path component. 116I.e. "foo" does not pick up `foobar.h`. "foo" does match `foo/bar.h` 117so it can be used to name subdirectories. 118 119An example of normal usage is: 120 121 torvalds@ppc970:~/git> git-diff-tree 5319e4...... 122 *100664->100664 blob ac348b.......->a01513....... git-fsck-objects.c 123 124which tells you that the last commit changed just one file (it's from 125this one: 126 127----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 128commit 3c6f7ca19ad4043e9e72fa94106f352897e651a8 129tree 5319e4d609cdd282069cc4dce33c1db559539b03 130parent b4e628ea30d5ab3606119d2ea5caeab141d38df7 131author Linus Torvalds <torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org> Sat Apr 9 12:02:30 2005 132committer Linus Torvalds <torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org> Sat Apr 9 12:02:30 2005 133 134Make "git-fsck-objects" print out all the root commits it finds. 135 136Once I do the reference tracking, I'll also make it print out all the 137HEAD commits it finds, which is even more interesting. 138----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 139 140in case you care). 141 142Output format 143------------- 144include::diff-format.txt[] 145 146 147Author 148------ 149Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> 150 151Documentation 152-------------- 153Documentation by David Greaves, Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>. 154 155GIT 156--- 157Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite 158