6 git-diff-tree - Compares the content and mode of blobs found via two tree objects
11 'git-diff-tree' [--stdin] [-m] [-s] [-v] [--no-commit-id] [--pretty] [-t] [-r] [--root] [<common diff options>] <tree-ish> [<tree-ish>] [<path>...]
15 Compares the content and mode of the blobs found via two tree objects.
17 If there is only one <tree-ish> given, the commit is compared with its parents
20 Note that "git-diff-tree" can use the tree encapsulated in a commit object.
24 include::diff-options.txt[]
27 The id of a tree object.
30 If provided, the results are limited to a subset of files
31 matching one of these prefix strings.
32 ie file matches `/^<pattern1>|<pattern2>|.../`
33 Note that this parameter does not provide any wildcard or regexp
37 recurse into sub-trees
40 show tree entry itself as well as subtrees. Implies -r.
43 When '--root' is specified the initial commit will be showed as a big
44 creation event. This is equivalent to a diff against the NULL tree.
47 When '--stdin' is specified, the command does not take
48 <tree-ish> arguments from the command line. Instead, it
49 reads either one <commit> or a pair of <tree-ish>
50 separated with a single space from its standard input.
52 When a single commit is given on one line of such input, it compares
53 the commit with its parents. The following flags further affects its
54 behaviour. This does not apply to the case where two <tree-ish>
55 separated with a single space are given.
58 By default, "git-diff-tree --stdin" does not show
59 differences for merge commits. With this flag, it shows
60 differences to that commit from all of its parents.
63 By default, "git-diff-tree --stdin" shows differences,
64 either in machine-readable form (without '-p') or in patch
65 form (with '-p'). This output can be supressed. It is
66 only useful with '-v' flag.
69 This flag causes "git-diff-tree --stdin" to also show
70 the commit message before the differences.
72 --pretty[=(raw|medium|short)]::
73 This is used to control "pretty printing" format of the
74 commit message. Without "=<style>", it defaults to
78 git-diff-tree outputs a line with the commit ID when
79 applicable. This flag suppressed the commit ID output.
84 If you're only interested in differences in a subset of files, for
85 example some architecture-specific files, you might do:
87 git-diff-tree -r <tree-ish> <tree-ish> arch/ia64 include/asm-ia64
89 and it will only show you what changed in those two directories.
91 Or if you are searching for what changed in just `kernel/sched.c`, just do
93 git-diff-tree -r <tree-ish> <tree-ish> kernel/sched.c
95 and it will ignore all differences to other files.
97 The pattern is always the prefix, and is matched exactly. There are no
98 wildcards. Even stricter, it has to match a complete path component.
99 I.e. "foo" does not pick up `foobar.h`. "foo" does match `foo/bar.h`
100 so it can be used to name subdirectories.
102 An example of normal usage is:
104 torvalds@ppc970:~/git> git-diff-tree 5319e4......
105 *100664->100664 blob ac348b.......->a01513....... git-fsck-objects.c
107 which tells you that the last commit changed just one file (it's from
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111 commit 3c6f7ca19ad4043e9e72fa94106f352897e651a8
112 tree 5319e4d609cdd282069cc4dce33c1db559539b03
113 parent b4e628ea30d5ab3606119d2ea5caeab141d38df7
114 author Linus Torvalds <torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org> Sat Apr 9 12:02:30 2005
115 committer Linus Torvalds <torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org> Sat Apr 9 12:02:30 2005
117 Make "git-fsck-objects" print out all the root commits it finds.
119 Once I do the reference tracking, I'll also make it print out all the
120 HEAD commits it finds, which is even more interesting.
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127 include::diff-format.txt[]
132 Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
136 Documentation by David Greaves, Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
140 Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite