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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-
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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       --rotate-to=<file>
32           Start showing the diff for the given path, the paths before it will
33           move to end and output.
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36           Start showing the diff for the given path, skipping all the paths
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39       -t <tool>, --tool=<tool>
40           Use the diff tool specified by <tool>. Valid values include emerge,
41           kompare, meld, and vimdiff. Run git difftool --tool-help for the
42           list of valid <tool> settings.
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44           If a diff tool is not specified, git difftool will use the
45           configuration variable diff.tool. If the configuration variable
46           diff.tool is not set, git difftool will pick a suitable default.
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48           You can explicitly provide a full path to the tool by setting the
49           configuration variable difftool.<tool>.path. For example, you can
50           configure the absolute path to kdiff3 by setting
51           difftool.kdiff3.path. Otherwise, git difftool assumes the tool is
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54           Instead of running one of the known diff tools, git difftool can be
55           customized to run an alternative program by specifying the command
56           line to invoke in a configuration variable difftool.<tool>.cmd.
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58           When git difftool is invoked with this tool (either through the -t
59           or --tool option or the diff.tool configuration variable) the
60           configured command line will be invoked with the following
61           variables available: $LOCAL is set to the name of the temporary
62           file containing the contents of the diff pre-image and $REMOTE is
63           set to the name of the temporary file containing the contents of
64           the diff post-image.  $MERGED is the name of the file which is
65           being compared.  $BASE is provided for compatibility with custom
66           merge tool commands and has the same value as $MERGED.
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68       --tool-help
69           Print a list of diff tools that may be used with --tool.
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71       --[no-]symlinks
72           git difftool's default behavior is create symlinks to the working
73           tree when run in --dir-diff mode and the right-hand side of the
74           comparison yields the same content as the file in the working tree.
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76           Specifying --no-symlinks instructs git difftool to create copies
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79       -x <command>, --extcmd=<command>
80           Specify a custom command for viewing diffs.  git-difftool ignores
81           the configured defaults and runs $command $LOCAL $REMOTE when this
82           option is specified. Additionally, $BASE is set in the environment.
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84       -g, --[no-]gui
85           When git-difftool is invoked with the -g or --gui option the
86           default diff tool will be read from the configured diff.guitool
87           variable instead of diff.tool. The --no-gui option can be used to
88           override this setting. If diff.guitool is not set, we will fallback
89           in the order of merge.guitool, diff.tool, merge.tool until a tool
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92       --[no-]trust-exit-code
93           git-difftool invokes a diff tool individually on each file. Errors
94           reported by the diff tool are ignored by default. Use
95           --trust-exit-code to make git-difftool exit when an invoked diff
96           tool returns a non-zero exit code.
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98           git-difftool will forward the exit code of the invoked tool when
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101       See git-diff(1) for the full list of supported options.
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CONFIG VARIABLES

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

132       git-diff(1)
133           Show changes between commits, commit and working tree, etc
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135       git-mergetool(1)
136           Run merge conflict resolution tools to resolve merge conflicts
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138       git-config(1)
139           Get and set repository or global options
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GIT

142       Part of the git(1) suite
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