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# git2cpp diff

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Show changes between commits, commit and working tree, etc


git2cpp diff [OPTIONS] [<files>(0x)]


POSITIONALS:
  <files> TEXT                tree-ish objects to compare

OPTIONS:
  -h,     --help              Print this help message and exit
          --stat              Generate a diffstat
          --shortstat         Output only the last line of --stat
          --numstat           Machine-friendly --stat
          --summary           Output a condensed summary
          --name-only         Show only names of changed files
          --name-status       Show names and status of changed files
          --raw               Generate the diff in raw format
          --cached, --staged  Compare staged changes to HEAD
          --no-index          Compare two files on filesystem
  -R                          Swap two inputs
  -a,     --text              Treat all files as text
          --ignore-space-at-eol
                              Ignore changes in whitespace at EOL
  -b,     --ignore-space-change
                              Ignore changes in amount of whitespace
  -w,     --ignore-all-space  Ignore whitespace when comparing lines
          --patience          Generate diff using patience algorithm
          --minimal           Spend extra time to find smallest diff
  -M,     --find-renames UINT [50]
                              Detect renames
  -C,     --find-copies UINT [50]
                              Detect copies
          --find-copies-harder
                              Detect copies from unmodified files
  -B,     --break-rewrites    Detect file rewrites
  -U,     --unified UINT      Lines of context
          --inter-hunk-context UINT
                              Context between hunks
          --abbrev UINT       Abbreviation length for object names
          --color             Show colored diff
          --no-color          Turn off colored diff
```