diffman-git

Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: 202-0-17
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NAME

diffman-git - compare changes to manual pages line by line  

SYNOPSIS

[dif-options~...] [[bas-commit] commit]  

DESCRIPTION

The diffman-git command formats a manual page at two git(1) commits, and then runs diff(1) on the formatted outputs. If the commit is not specified, it diffs the working directory against HEAD. If the bas-commit is not specified, the comparison is done against the previous commit.  

OPTIONS

-s

Report when two files are the same.

-Un

output n (default 3) lines of unified context.

-w

Ignore all white space.

 

ENVIRONMENT

See man(1).  

EXAMPLES

$~MAN_KEEP_FORMATTING= diffman-git 437e4afec6ca | less -R; --- 437e4afec6ca[ha]:man/man3/sem_open.3 +++ 437e4afec6ca:man/man3/sem_open.3 @@ -14,3 +14,2 @@ - sem_t *sem_open(const char *name, int oflag); - sem_t *sem_open(const char *name, int oflag, - mode_t mode, unsigned int value); + sem_t *sem_open(const char *name, int oflag, ... + /* mode_t mode, unsigned int value */ );  

SEE ALSO

diff(1), man(1), git(1), less(1)

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