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NAME

6       git-difftool - Show changes using common diff tools
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SYNOPSIS

9       git difftool [<options>] [<commit> [<commit>]] [--] [<path>...]
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DESCRIPTION

12       git difftool is a Git command that allows you to compare and edit files
13       between revisions using common diff tools. git difftool is a frontend
14       to git diff and accepts the same options and arguments. See git-
15       diff(1).
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OPTIONS

18       -d, --dir-diff
19           Copy the modified files to a temporary location and perform a
20           directory diff on them. This mode never prompts before launching
21           the diff tool.
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23       -y, --no-prompt
24           Do not prompt before launching a diff tool.
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26       --prompt
27           Prompt before each invocation of the diff tool. This is the default
28           behaviour; the option is provided to override any configuration
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31       -t <tool>, --tool=<tool>
32           Use the diff tool specified by <tool>. Valid values include emerge,
33           kompare, meld, and vimdiff. Run git difftool --tool-help for the
34           list of valid <tool> settings.
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36           If a diff tool is not specified, git difftool will use the
37           configuration variable diff.tool. If the configuration variable
38           diff.tool is not set, git difftool will pick a suitable default.
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40           You can explicitly provide a full path to the tool by setting the
41           configuration variable difftool.<tool>.path. For example, you can
42           configure the absolute path to kdiff3 by setting
43           difftool.kdiff3.path. Otherwise, git difftool assumes the tool is
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46           Instead of running one of the known diff tools, git difftool can be
47           customized to run an alternative program by specifying the command
48           line to invoke in a configuration variable difftool.<tool>.cmd.
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50           When git difftool is invoked with this tool (either through the -t
51           or --tool option or the diff.tool configuration variable) the
52           configured command line will be invoked with the following
53           variables available: $LOCAL is set to the name of the temporary
54           file containing the contents of the diff pre-image and $REMOTE is
55           set to the name of the temporary file containing the contents of
56           the diff post-image.  $MERGED is the name of the file which is
57           being compared.  $BASE is provided for compatibility with custom
58           merge tool commands and has the same value as $MERGED.
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60       --tool-help
61           Print a list of diff tools that may be used with --tool.
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63       --[no-]symlinks
64           git difftool's default behavior is create symlinks to the working
65           tree when run in --dir-diff mode and the right-hand side of the
66           comparison yields the same content as the file in the working tree.
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68           Specifying --no-symlinks instructs git difftool to create copies
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71       -x <command>, --extcmd=<command>
72           Specify a custom command for viewing diffs.  git-difftool ignores
73           the configured defaults and runs $command $LOCAL $REMOTE when this
74           option is specified. Additionally, $BASE is set in the environment.
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76       -g, --[no-]gui
77           When git-difftool is invoked with the -g or --gui option the
78           default diff tool will be read from the configured diff.guitool
79           variable instead of diff.tool. The --no-gui option can be used to
80           override this setting. If diff.guitool is not set, we will fallback
81           in the order of merge.guitool, diff.tool, merge.tool until a tool
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84       --[no-]trust-exit-code
85           git-difftool invokes a diff tool individually on each file. Errors
86           reported by the diff tool are ignored by default. Use
87           --trust-exit-code to make git-difftool exit when an invoked diff
88           tool returns a non-zero exit code.
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90           git-difftool will forward the exit code of the invoked tool when
91           --trust-exit-code is used.
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CONFIG VARIABLES

96       git difftool falls back to git mergetool config variables when the
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100           The default diff tool to use.
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105       difftool.<tool>.path
106           Override the path for the given tool. This is useful in case your
107           tool is not in the PATH.
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110           Specify the command to invoke the specified diff tool.
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115           Prompt before each invocation of the diff tool.
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117       difftool.trustExitCode
118           Exit difftool if the invoked diff tool returns a non-zero exit
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121           See the --trust-exit-code option above for more details.
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SEE ALSO

124       git-diff(1)
125           Show changes between commits, commit and working tree, etc
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127       git-mergetool(1)
128           Run merge conflict resolution tools to resolve merge conflicts
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130       git-config(1)
131           Get and set repository or global options
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GIT

134       Part of the git(1) suite
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