NAME¶

SYNOPSIS¶

DESCRIPTION¶

OPTIONS¶

--version

show program's version number and exit

-h, --help

show this help message and exit

--cols=COLS

specify the width of the screen. Autodetection is Unix only

--encoding=ENCODING

specify the file encoding; defaults to utf8

-E MATCHER, --exclude-lines=MATCHER

Do not diff lines that match this regex. Not compatible with the 'line-numbers' option

--head=HEAD

consider only the first N lines of each file

-H, --highlight

color by changing the background color instead of the foreground color. Very fast, ugly, displays all changes

-L LABELS, --label=LABELS

override file labels with arbitrary tags. Use twice, one for each file. You may include the formatting strings '{path}' and '{basename}'

-N, --line-numbers

generate output with line numbers. Not compatible with the 'exclude-lines' option.

--no-bold

use non-bold colors; recommended for solarized

--no-headers

don't label the left and right sides with their file names

--output-encoding=OUTPUT_ENCODING

specify the output encoding; defaults to utf8

-r, --recursive

recursively compare subdirectories

--show-all-spaces

color all non-matching whitespace including that which is not needed for drawing the eye to changes. Slow, ugly, displays all changes

--tabsize=TABSIZE

tab stop spacing

-u, --patch

generate patch. This is always true, and only exists for compatibility

-U NUM, --unified=NUM, --numlines=NUM

how many lines of context to print; can't be combined with --whole-file

-W, --whole-file

show the whole file instead of just changed lines and context

--strip-trailing-cr

strip any trailing carriage return at the end of an input line

--color-map=COLOR_MAP

choose which colors are used for which items. Default is --color-map='add:green_bold,change:yellow_bold,desc ription:blue,line-numbers:white,meta:magenta,separator :blue,subtract:red_bold'. You don't have to override all of them: '--colormap=separator:white,description:cyan