SYNOPSIS
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-'git-diff-tree' [--stdin] [-m] [-s] [-v] [--pretty] [-t] [<common diff options>] <tree-ish> <tree-ish> [<path>...]
+'git-diff-tree' [--stdin] [-m] [-s] [-v] [--pretty] [-t] [<common diff options>] <tree-ish> [<tree-ish>] [<path>...]
DESCRIPTION
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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
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 complete path comonent.
+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-cache.c
+ *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:
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-cache" print out all the root commits it finds.
+ 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.
GIT
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-Part of the link:git.html[git] suite
+Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite