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GIT-SHOW(1) Git Manual GIT-SHOW(1)
git-show - Show various types of objects
git show [<options>] [<object>...]
Shows one or more objects (blobs, trees, tags and commits).
For commits it shows the log message and textual diff. It also
presents the merge commit in a special format as produced by git
diff-tree --cc.
For tags, it shows the tag message and the referenced objects.
For trees, it shows the names (equivalent to git ls-tree with
--name-only).
For plain blobs, it shows the plain contents.
Some options that git log command understands can be used to
control how the changes the commit introduces are shown.
This manual page describes only the most frequently used options.
<object>...
The names of objects to show (defaults to HEAD). For a more
complete list of ways to spell object names, see "SPECIFYING
REVISIONS" section in gitrevisions(7).
--pretty[=<format>], --format=<format>
Pretty-print the contents of the commit logs in a given
format, where <format> can be one of oneline, short, medium,
full, fuller, reference, email, raw, format:<string> and
tformat:<string>. When <format> is none of the above, and has
%placeholder in it, it acts as if --pretty=tformat:<format>
were given.
See the "PRETTY FORMATS" section for some additional details
for each format. When =<format> part is omitted, it defaults
to medium.
Note: you can specify the default pretty format in the
repository configuration (see git-config(1)).
--abbrev-commit
Instead of showing the full 40-byte hexadecimal commit object
name, show a prefix that names the object uniquely.
"--abbrev=<n>" (which also modifies diff output, if it is
displayed) option can be used to specify the minimum length
of the prefix.
This should make "--pretty=oneline" a whole lot more readable
for people using 80-column terminals.
--no-abbrev-commit
Show the full 40-byte hexadecimal commit object name. This
negates --abbrev-commit, either explicit or implied by other
options such as "--oneline". It also overrides the
log.abbrevCommit variable.
--oneline
This is a shorthand for "--pretty=oneline --abbrev-commit"
used together.
--encoding=<encoding>
Commit objects record the character encoding used for the log
message in their encoding header; this option can be used to
tell the command to re-code the commit log message in the
encoding preferred by the user. For non plumbing commands
this defaults to UTF-8. Note that if an object claims to be
encoded in X and we are outputting in X, we will output the
object verbatim; this means that invalid sequences in the
original commit may be copied to the output. Likewise, if
iconv(3) fails to convert the commit, we will quietly output
the original object verbatim.
--expand-tabs=<n>, --expand-tabs, --no-expand-tabs
Perform a tab expansion (replace each tab with enough spaces
to fill to the next display column that is a multiple of <n>)
in the log message before showing it in the output.
--expand-tabs is a short-hand for --expand-tabs=8, and
--no-expand-tabs is a short-hand for --expand-tabs=0, which
disables tab expansion.
By default, tabs are expanded in pretty formats that indent
the log message by 4 spaces (i.e. medium, which is the
default, full, and fuller).
--notes[=<ref>]
Show the notes (see git-notes(1)) that annotate the commit,
when showing the commit log message. This is the default for
git log, git show and git whatchanged commands when there is
no --pretty, --format, or --oneline option given on the
command line.
By default, the notes shown are from the notes refs listed in
the core.notesRef and notes.displayRef variables (or
corresponding environment overrides). See git-config(1) for
more details.
With an optional <ref> argument, use the ref to find the
notes to display. The ref can specify the full refname when
it begins with refs/notes/; when it begins with notes/, refs/
and otherwise refs/notes/ is prefixed to form the full name
of the ref.
Multiple --notes options can be combined to control which
notes are being displayed. Examples: "--notes=foo" will show
only notes from "refs/notes/foo"; "--notes=foo --notes" will
show both notes from "refs/notes/foo" and from the default
notes ref(s).
--no-notes
Do not show notes. This negates the above --notes option, by
resetting the list of notes refs from which notes are shown.
Options are parsed in the order given on the command line, so
e.g. "--notes --notes=foo --no-notes --notes=bar" will only
show notes from "refs/notes/bar".
--show-notes-by-default
Show the default notes unless options for displaying specific
notes are given.
--show-notes[=<ref>], --[no-]standard-notes
These options are deprecated. Use the above
--notes/--no-notes options instead.
--show-signature
Check the validity of a signed commit object by passing the
signature to gpg --verify and show the output.
If the commit is a merge, and if the pretty-format is not
oneline, email or raw, an additional line is inserted before the
Author: line. This line begins with "Merge: " and the hashes of
ancestral commits are printed, separated by spaces. Note that the
listed commits may not necessarily be the list of the direct
parent commits if you have limited your view of history: for
example, if you are only interested in changes related to a
certain directory or file.
There are several built-in formats, and you can define additional
formats by setting a pretty.<name> config option to either
another format name, or a format: string, as described below (see
git-config(1)). Here are the details of the built-in formats:
• oneline
<hash> <title-line>
This is designed to be as compact as possible.
• short
commit <hash>
Author: <author>
<title-line>
• medium
commit <hash>
Author: <author>
Date: <author-date>
<title-line>
<full-commit-message>
• full
commit <hash>
Author: <author>
Commit: <committer>
<title-line>
<full-commit-message>
• fuller
commit <hash>
Author: <author>
AuthorDate: <author-date>
Commit: <committer>
CommitDate: <committer-date>
<title-line>
<full-commit-message>
• reference
<abbrev-hash> (<title-line>, <short-author-date>)
This format is used to refer to another commit in a commit
message and is the same as --pretty='format:%C(auto)%h (%s,
%ad)'. By default, the date is formatted with --date=short
unless another --date option is explicitly specified. As with
any format: with format placeholders, its output is not
affected by other options like --decorate and --walk-reflogs.
• email
From <hash> <date>
From: <author>
Date: <author-date>
Subject: [PATCH] <title-line>
<full-commit-message>
• mboxrd
Like email, but lines in the commit message starting with
"From " (preceded by zero or more ">") are quoted with ">" so
they aren’t confused as starting a new commit.
• raw
The raw format shows the entire commit exactly as stored in
the commit object. Notably, the hashes are displayed in full,
regardless of whether --abbrev or --no-abbrev are used, and
parents information show the true parent commits, without
taking grafts or history simplification into account. Note
that this format affects the way commits are displayed, but
not the way the diff is shown e.g. with git log --raw. To get
full object names in a raw diff format, use --no-abbrev.
• format:<format-string>
The format:<format-string> format allows you to specify which
information you want to show. It works a little bit like
printf format, with the notable exception that you get a
newline with %n instead of \n.
E.g, format:"The author of %h was %an, %ar%nThe title was
>>%s<<%n" would show something like this:
The author of fe6e0ee was Junio C Hamano, 23 hours ago
The title was >>t4119: test autocomputing -p<n> for traditional diff input.<<
The placeholders are:
• Placeholders that expand to a single literal character:
%n
newline
%%
a raw %
%x00
%x followed by two hexadecimal digits is replaced
with a byte with the hexadecimal digits' value (we
will call this "literal formatting code" in the rest
of this document).
• Placeholders that affect formatting of later
placeholders:
%Cred
switch color to red
%Cgreen
switch color to green
%Cblue
switch color to blue
%Creset
reset color
%C(...)
color specification, as described under Values in the
"CONFIGURATION FILE" section of git-config(1). By
default, colors are shown only when enabled for log
output (by color.diff, color.ui, or --color, and
respecting the auto settings of the former if we are
going to a terminal). %C(auto,...) is accepted as a
historical synonym for the default (e.g.,
%C(auto,red)). Specifying %C(always,...) will show
the colors even when color is not otherwise enabled
(though consider just using --color=always to enable
color for the whole output, including this format and
anything else git might color). auto alone (i.e.
%C(auto)) will turn on auto coloring on the next
placeholders until the color is switched again.
%m
left (<), right (>) or boundary (-) mark
%w([<w>[,<i1>[,<i2>]]])
switch line wrapping, like the -w option of
git-shortlog(1).
%<( <N> [,trunc|ltrunc|mtrunc])
make the next placeholder take at least N column
widths, padding spaces on the right if necessary.
Optionally truncate (with ellipsis ..) at the left
(ltrunc) ..ft, the middle (mtrunc) mi..le, or the end
(trunc) rig.., if the output is longer than N
columns. Note 1: that truncating only works correctly
with N >= 2. Note 2: spaces around the N and M (see
below) values are optional. Note 3: Emojis and other
wide characters will take two display columns, which
may over-run column boundaries. Note 4: decomposed
character combining marks may be misplaced at padding
boundaries.
%<|( <M> )
make the next placeholder take at least until Mth
display column, padding spaces on the right if
necessary. Use negative M values for column positions
measured from the right hand edge of the terminal
window.
%>( <N> ), %>|( <M> )
similar to %<( <N> ), %<|( <M> ) respectively, but
padding spaces on the left
%>>( <N> ), %>>|( <M> )
similar to %>( <N> ), %>|( <M> ) respectively, except
that if the next placeholder takes more spaces than
given and there are spaces on its left, use those
spaces
%><( <N> ), %><|( <M> )
similar to %<( <N> ), %<|( <M> ) respectively, but
padding both sides (i.e. the text is centered)
• Placeholders that expand to information extracted from
the commit:
%H
commit hash
%h
abbreviated commit hash
%T
tree hash
%t
abbreviated tree hash
%P
parent hashes
%p
abbreviated parent hashes
%an
author name
%aN
author name (respecting .mailmap, see git-shortlog(1)
or git-blame(1))
%ae
author email
%aE
author email (respecting .mailmap, see
git-shortlog(1) or git-blame(1))
%al
author email local-part (the part before the @ sign)
%aL
author local-part (see %al) respecting .mailmap, see
git-shortlog(1) or git-blame(1))
%ad
author date (format respects --date= option)
%aD
author date, RFC2822 style
%ar
author date, relative
%at
author date, UNIX timestamp
%ai
author date, ISO 8601-like format
%aI
author date, strict ISO 8601 format
%as
author date, short format (YYYY-MM-DD)
%ah
author date, human style (like the --date=human
option of git-rev-list(1))
%cn
committer name
%cN
committer name (respecting .mailmap, see
git-shortlog(1) or git-blame(1))
%ce
committer email
%cE
committer email (respecting .mailmap, see
git-shortlog(1) or git-blame(1))
%cl
committer email local-part (the part before the @
sign)
%cL
committer local-part (see %cl) respecting .mailmap,
see git-shortlog(1) or git-blame(1))
%cd
committer date (format respects --date= option)
%cD
committer date, RFC2822 style
%cr
committer date, relative
%ct
committer date, UNIX timestamp
%ci
committer date, ISO 8601-like format
%cI
committer date, strict ISO 8601 format
%cs
committer date, short format (YYYY-MM-DD)
%ch
committer date, human style (like the --date=human
option of git-rev-list(1))
%d
ref names, like the --decorate option of git-log(1)
%D
ref names without the " (", ")" wrapping.
%(decorate[:<options>])
ref names with custom decorations. The decorate
string may be followed by a colon and zero or more
comma-separated options. Option values may contain
literal formatting codes. These must be used for
commas (%x2C) and closing parentheses (%x29), due to
their role in the option syntax.
• prefix=<value>: Shown before the list of ref
names. Defaults to " (".
• suffix=<value>: Shown after the list of ref
names. Defaults to ")".
• separator=<value>: Shown between ref names.
Defaults to ", ".
• pointer=<value>: Shown between HEAD and the
branch it points to, if any. Defaults to " -> ".
• tag=<value>: Shown before tag names. Defaults to
"tag: ".
For example, to produce decorations with no wrapping
or tag annotations, and spaces as separators:
%(decorate:prefix=,suffix=,tag=,separator= )
%(describe[:<options>])
human-readable name, like git-describe(1); empty
string for undescribable commits. The describe string
may be followed by a colon and zero or more
comma-separated options. Descriptions can be
inconsistent when tags are added or removed at the
same time.
• tags[=<bool-value>]: Instead of only considering
annotated tags, consider lightweight tags as
well.
• abbrev=<number>: Instead of using the default
number of hexadecimal digits (which will vary
according to the number of objects in the
repository with a default of 7) of the
abbreviated object name, use <number> digits, or
as many digits as needed to form a unique object
name.
• match=<pattern>: Only consider tags matching the
given glob(7) pattern, excluding the "refs/tags/"
prefix.
• exclude=<pattern>: Do not consider tags matching
the given glob(7) pattern, excluding the
"refs/tags/" prefix.
%S
ref name given on the command line by which the
commit was reached (like git log --source), only
works with git log
%e
encoding
%s
subject
%f
sanitized subject line, suitable for a filename
%b
body
%B
raw body (unwrapped subject and body)
%N
commit notes
%GG
raw verification message from GPG for a signed commit
%G?
show "G" for a good (valid) signature, "B" for a bad
signature, "U" for a good signature with unknown
validity, "X" for a good signature that has expired,
"Y" for a good signature made by an expired key, "R"
for a good signature made by a revoked key, "E" if
the signature cannot be checked (e.g. missing key)
and "N" for no signature
%GS
show the name of the signer for a signed commit
%GK
show the key used to sign a signed commit
%GF
show the fingerprint of the key used to sign a signed
commit
%GP
show the fingerprint of the primary key whose subkey
was used to sign a signed commit
%GT
show the trust level for the key used to sign a
signed commit
%gD
reflog selector, e.g., refs/stash@{1} or
refs/stash@{2 minutes ago}; the format follows the
rules described for the -g option. The portion before
the @ is the refname as given on the command line (so
git log -g refs/heads/master would yield
refs/heads/master@{0}).
%gd
shortened reflog selector; same as %gD, but the
refname portion is shortened for human readability
(so refs/heads/master becomes just master).
%gn
reflog identity name
%gN
reflog identity name (respecting .mailmap, see
git-shortlog(1) or git-blame(1))
%ge
reflog identity email
%gE
reflog identity email (respecting .mailmap, see
git-shortlog(1) or git-blame(1))
%gs
reflog subject
%(trailers[:<options>])
display the trailers of the body as interpreted by
git-interpret-trailers(1). The trailers string may be
followed by a colon and zero or more comma-separated
options. If any option is provided multiple times,
the last occurrence wins.
• key=<key>: only show trailers with specified
<key>. Matching is done case-insensitively and
trailing colon is optional. If option is given
multiple times trailer lines matching any of the
keys are shown. This option automatically enables
the only option so that non-trailer lines in the
trailer block are hidden. If that is not desired
it can be disabled with only=false. E.g.,
%(trailers:key=Reviewed-by) shows trailer lines
with key Reviewed-by.
• only[=<bool>]: select whether non-trailer lines
from the trailer block should be included.
• separator=<sep>: specify the separator inserted
between trailer lines. Defaults to a line feed
character. The string <sep> may contain the
literal formatting codes described above. To use
comma as separator one must use %x2C as it would
otherwise be parsed as next option. E.g.,
%(trailers:key=Ticket,separator=%x2C ) shows all
trailer lines whose key is "Ticket" separated by
a comma and a space.
• unfold[=<bool>]: make it behave as if
interpret-trailer’s --unfold option was given.
E.g., %(trailers:only,unfold=true) unfolds and
shows all trailer lines.
• keyonly[=<bool>]: only show the key part of the
trailer.
• valueonly[=<bool>]: only show the value part of
the trailer.
• key_value_separator=<sep>: specify the separator
inserted between the key and value of each
trailer. Defaults to ": ". Otherwise it shares
the same semantics as separator=<sep> above.
Note
Some placeholders may depend on other options given to the
revision traversal engine. For example, the %g* reflog
options will insert an empty string unless we are traversing
reflog entries (e.g., by git log -g). The %d and %D
placeholders will use the "short" decoration format if
--decorate was not already provided on the command line.
The boolean options accept an optional value [=<bool-value>]. The
values true, false, on, off etc. are all accepted. See the
"boolean" sub-section in "EXAMPLES" in git-config(1). If a
boolean option is given with no value, it’s enabled.
If you add a + (plus sign) after % of a placeholder, a line-feed
is inserted immediately before the expansion if and only if the
placeholder expands to a non-empty string.
If you add a - (minus sign) after % of a placeholder, all
consecutive line-feeds immediately preceding the expansion are
deleted if and only if the placeholder expands to an empty
string.
If you add a ` ` (space) after % of a placeholder, a space is
inserted immediately before the expansion if and only if the
placeholder expands to a non-empty string.
• tformat:
The tformat: format works exactly like format:, except that
it provides "terminator" semantics instead of "separator"
semantics. In other words, each commit has the message
terminator character (usually a newline) appended, rather
than a separator placed between entries. This means that the
final entry of a single-line format will be properly
terminated with a new line, just as the "oneline" format
does. For example:
$ git log -2 --pretty=format:%h 4da45bef \
| perl -pe '$_ .= " -- NO NEWLINE\n" unless /\n/'
4da45be
7134973 -- NO NEWLINE
$ git log -2 --pretty=tformat:%h 4da45bef \
| perl -pe '$_ .= " -- NO NEWLINE\n" unless /\n/'
4da45be
7134973
In addition, any unrecognized string that has a % in it is
interpreted as if it has tformat: in front of it. For
example, these two are equivalent:
$ git log -2 --pretty=tformat:%h 4da45bef
$ git log -2 --pretty=%h 4da45bef
The options below can be used to change the way git show
generates diff output.
-p, -u, --patch
Generate patch (see the section called “GENERATING PATCH TEXT
WITH -P”).
-s, --no-patch
Suppress all output from the diff machinery. Useful for
commands like git show that show the patch by default to
squelch their output, or to cancel the effect of options like
--patch, --stat earlier on the command line in an alias.
-m
Show diffs for merge commits in the default format. This is
similar to --diff-merges=on, except -m will produce no output
unless -p is given as well.
-c
Produce combined diff output for merge commits. Shortcut for
--diff-merges=combined -p.
--cc
Produce dense combined diff output for merge commits.
Shortcut for --diff-merges=dense-combined -p.
--dd
Produce diff with respect to first parent for both merge and
regular commits. Shortcut for --diff-merges=first-parent -p.
--remerge-diff
Produce remerge-diff output for merge commits. Shortcut for
--diff-merges=remerge -p.
--no-diff-merges
Synonym for --diff-merges=off.
--diff-merges=<format>
Specify diff format to be used for merge commits. Default is
dense-combined unless --first-parent is in use, in which case
first-parent is the default.
The following formats are supported:
off, none
Disable output of diffs for merge commits. Useful to
override implied value.
on, m
Make diff output for merge commits to be shown in the
default format. The default format can be changed using
log.diffMerges configuration variable, whose default
value is separate.
first-parent, 1
Show full diff with respect to first parent. This is the
same format as --patch produces for non-merge commits.
separate
Show full diff with respect to each of parents. Separate
log entry and diff is generated for each parent.
combined, c
Show differences from each of the parents to the merge
result simultaneously instead of showing pairwise diff
between a parent and the result one at a time.
Furthermore, it lists only files which were modified from
all parents.
dense-combined, cc
Further compress output produced by
--diff-merges=combined by omitting uninteresting hunks
whose contents in the parents have only two variants and
the merge result picks one of them without modification.
remerge, r
Remerge two-parent merge commits to create a temporary
tree object—potentially containing files with conflict
markers and such. A diff is then shown between that
temporary tree and the actual merge commit.
The output emitted when this option is used is subject to
change, and so is its interaction with other options
(unless explicitly documented).
--combined-all-paths
This flag causes combined diffs (used for merge commits) to
list the name of the file from all parents. It thus only has
effect when --diff-merges=[dense-]combined is in use, and is
likely only useful if filename changes are detected (i.e.
when either rename or copy detection have been requested).
-U<n>, --unified=<n>
Generate diffs with <n> lines of context instead of the usual
three. Implies --patch.
--output=<file>
Output to a specific file instead of stdout.
--output-indicator-new=<char>, --output-indicator-old=<char>,
--output-indicator-context=<char>
Specify the character used to indicate new, old or context
lines in the generated patch. Normally they are +, - and ' '
respectively.
--raw
For each commit, show a summary of changes using the raw diff
format. See the "RAW OUTPUT FORMAT" section of git-diff(1).
This is different from showing the log itself in raw format,
which you can achieve with --format=raw.
--patch-with-raw
Synonym for -p --raw.
-t
Show the tree objects in the diff output.
--indent-heuristic
Enable the heuristic that shifts diff hunk boundaries to make
patches easier to read. This is the default.
--no-indent-heuristic
Disable the indent heuristic.
--minimal
Spend extra time to make sure the smallest possible diff is
produced.
--patience
Generate a diff using the "patience diff" algorithm.
--histogram
Generate a diff using the "histogram diff" algorithm.
--anchored=<text>
Generate a diff using the "anchored diff" algorithm.
This option may be specified more than once.
If a line exists in both the source and destination, exists
only once, and starts with this text, this algorithm attempts
to prevent it from appearing as a deletion or addition in the
output. It uses the "patience diff" algorithm internally.
--diff-algorithm={patience|minimal|histogram|myers}
Choose a diff algorithm. The variants are as follows:
default, myers
The basic greedy diff algorithm. Currently, this is the
default.
minimal
Spend extra time to make sure the smallest possible diff
is produced.
patience
Use "patience diff" algorithm when generating patches.
histogram
This algorithm extends the patience algorithm to "support
low-occurrence common elements".
For instance, if you configured the diff.algorithm variable
to a non-default value and want to use the default one, then
you have to use --diff-algorithm=default option.
--stat[=<width>[,<name-width>[,<count>]]]
Generate a diffstat. By default, as much space as necessary
will be used for the filename part, and the rest for the
graph part. Maximum width defaults to terminal width, or 80
columns if not connected to a terminal, and can be overridden
by <width>. The width of the filename part can be limited by
giving another width <name-width> after a comma or by setting
diff.statNameWidth=<width>. The width of the graph part can
be limited by using --stat-graph-width=<width> or by setting
diff.statGraphWidth=<width>. Using --stat or
--stat-graph-width affects all commands generating a stat
graph, while setting diff.statNameWidth or
diff.statGraphWidth does not affect git format-patch. By
giving a third parameter <count>, you can limit the output to
the first <count> lines, followed by ... if there are more.
These parameters can also be set individually with
--stat-width=<width>, --stat-name-width=<name-width> and
--stat-count=<count>.
--compact-summary
Output a condensed summary of extended header information
such as file creations or deletions ("new" or "gone",
optionally "+l" if it’s a symlink) and mode changes ("+x" or
"-x" for adding or removing executable bit respectively) in
diffstat. The information is put between the filename part
and the graph part. Implies --stat.
--numstat
Similar to --stat, but shows number of added and deleted
lines in decimal notation and pathname without abbreviation,
to make it more machine friendly. For binary files, outputs
two - instead of saying 0 0.
--shortstat
Output only the last line of the --stat format containing
total number of modified files, as well as number of added
and deleted lines.
-X[<param1,param2,...>], --dirstat[=<param1,param2,...>]
Output the distribution of relative amount of changes for
each sub-directory. The behavior of --dirstat can be
customized by passing it a comma separated list of
parameters. The defaults are controlled by the diff.dirstat
configuration variable (see git-config(1)). The following
parameters are available:
changes
Compute the dirstat numbers by counting the lines that
have been removed from the source, or added to the
destination. This ignores the amount of pure code
movements within a file. In other words, rearranging
lines in a file is not counted as much as other changes.
This is the default behavior when no parameter is given.
lines
Compute the dirstat numbers by doing the regular
line-based diff analysis, and summing the removed/added
line counts. (For binary files, count 64-byte chunks
instead, since binary files have no natural concept of
lines). This is a more expensive --dirstat behavior than
the changes behavior, but it does count rearranged lines
within a file as much as other changes. The resulting
output is consistent with what you get from the other
--*stat options.
files
Compute the dirstat numbers by counting the number of
files changed. Each changed file counts equally in the
dirstat analysis. This is the computationally cheapest
--dirstat behavior, since it does not have to look at the
file contents at all.
cumulative
Count changes in a child directory for the parent
directory as well. Note that when using cumulative, the
sum of the percentages reported may exceed 100%. The
default (non-cumulative) behavior can be specified with
the noncumulative parameter.
<limit>
An integer parameter specifies a cut-off percent (3% by
default). Directories contributing less than this
percentage of the changes are not shown in the output.
Example: The following will count changed files, while
ignoring directories with less than 10% of the total amount
of changed files, and accumulating child directory counts in
the parent directories: --dirstat=files,10,cumulative.
--cumulative
Synonym for --dirstat=cumulative
--dirstat-by-file[=<param1,param2>...]
Synonym for --dirstat=files,<param1>,<param2>...
--summary
Output a condensed summary of extended header information
such as creations, renames and mode changes.
--patch-with-stat
Synonym for -p --stat.
-z
Separate the commits with NULs instead of newlines.
Also, when --raw or --numstat has been given, do not munge
pathnames and use NULs as output field terminators.
Without this option, pathnames with "unusual" characters are
quoted as explained for the configuration variable
core.quotePath (see git-config(1)).
--name-only
Show only the name of each changed file in the post-image
tree. The file names are often encoded in UTF-8. For more
information see the discussion about encoding in the
git-log(1) manual page.
--name-status
Show only the name(s) and status of each changed file. See
the description of the --diff-filter option on what the
status letters mean. Just like --name-only the file names are
often encoded in UTF-8.
--submodule[=<format>]
Specify how differences in submodules are shown. When
specifying --submodule=short the short format is used. This
format just shows the names of the commits at the beginning
and end of the range. When --submodule or --submodule=log is
specified, the log format is used. This format lists the
commits in the range like git-submodule(1) summary does. When
--submodule=diff is specified, the diff format is used. This
format shows an inline diff of the changes in the submodule
contents between the commit range. Defaults to diff.submodule
or the short format if the config option is unset.
--color[=<when>]
Show colored diff. --color (i.e. without =<when>) is the
same as --color=always. <when> can be one of always, never,
or auto.
--no-color
Turn off colored diff. It is the same as --color=never.
--color-moved[=<mode>]
Moved lines of code are colored differently. The <mode>
defaults to no if the option is not given and to zebra if the
option with no mode is given. The mode must be one of:
no
Moved lines are not highlighted.
default
Is a synonym for zebra. This may change to a more
sensible mode in the future.
plain
Any line that is added in one location and was removed in
another location will be colored with
color.diff.newMoved. Similarly color.diff.oldMoved will
be used for removed lines that are added somewhere else
in the diff. This mode picks up any moved line, but it is
not very useful in a review to determine if a block of
code was moved without permutation.
blocks
Blocks of moved text of at least 20 alphanumeric
characters are detected greedily. The detected blocks are
painted using either the color.diff.{old,new}Moved color.
Adjacent blocks cannot be told apart.
zebra
Blocks of moved text are detected as in blocks mode. The
blocks are painted using either the
color.diff.{old,new}Moved color or
color.diff.{old,new}MovedAlternative. The change between
the two colors indicates that a new block was detected.
dimmed-zebra
Similar to zebra, but additional dimming of uninteresting
parts of moved code is performed. The bordering lines of
two adjacent blocks are considered interesting, the rest
is uninteresting. dimmed_zebra is a deprecated synonym.
--no-color-moved
Turn off move detection. This can be used to override
configuration settings. It is the same as --color-moved=no.
--color-moved-ws=<modes>
This configures how whitespace is ignored when performing the
move detection for --color-moved. These modes can be given as
a comma separated list:
no
Do not ignore whitespace when performing move detection.
ignore-space-at-eol
Ignore changes in whitespace at EOL.
ignore-space-change
Ignore changes in amount of whitespace. This ignores
whitespace at line end, and considers all other sequences
of one or more whitespace characters to be equivalent.
ignore-all-space
Ignore whitespace when comparing lines. This ignores
differences even if one line has whitespace where the
other line has none.
allow-indentation-change
Initially ignore any whitespace in the move detection,
then group the moved code blocks only into a block if the
change in whitespace is the same per line. This is
incompatible with the other modes.
--no-color-moved-ws
Do not ignore whitespace when performing move detection. This
can be used to override configuration settings. It is the
same as --color-moved-ws=no.
--word-diff[=<mode>]
Show a word diff, using the <mode> to delimit changed words.
By default, words are delimited by whitespace; see
--word-diff-regex below. The <mode> defaults to plain, and
must be one of:
color
Highlight changed words using only colors. Implies
--color.
plain
Show words as [-removed-] and {+added+}. Makes no
attempts to escape the delimiters if they appear in the
input, so the output may be ambiguous.
porcelain
Use a special line-based format intended for script
consumption. Added/removed/unchanged runs are printed in
the usual unified diff format, starting with a +/-/` `
character at the beginning of the line and extending to
the end of the line. Newlines in the input are
represented by a tilde ~ on a line of its own.
none
Disable word diff again.
Note that despite the name of the first mode, color is used
to highlight the changed parts in all modes if enabled.
--word-diff-regex=<regex>
Use <regex> to decide what a word is, instead of considering
runs of non-whitespace to be a word. Also implies --word-diff
unless it was already enabled.
Every non-overlapping match of the <regex> is considered a
word. Anything between these matches is considered whitespace
and ignored(!) for the purposes of finding differences. You
may want to append |[^[:space:]] to your regular expression
to make sure that it matches all non-whitespace characters. A
match that contains a newline is silently truncated(!) at the
newline.
For example, --word-diff-regex=. will treat each character
as a word and, correspondingly, show differences character by
character.
The regex can also be set via a diff driver or configuration
option, see gitattributes(5) or git-config(1). Giving it
explicitly overrides any diff driver or configuration
setting. Diff drivers override configuration settings.
--color-words[=<regex>]
Equivalent to --word-diff=color plus (if a regex was
specified) --word-diff-regex=<regex>.
--no-renames
Turn off rename detection, even when the configuration file
gives the default to do so.
--[no-]rename-empty
Whether to use empty blobs as rename source.
--check
Warn if changes introduce conflict markers or whitespace
errors. What are considered whitespace errors is controlled
by core.whitespace configuration. By default, trailing
whitespaces (including lines that consist solely of
whitespaces) and a space character that is immediately
followed by a tab character inside the initial indent of the
line are considered whitespace errors. Exits with non-zero
status if problems are found. Not compatible with
--exit-code.
--ws-error-highlight=<kind>
Highlight whitespace errors in the context, old or new lines
of the diff. Multiple values are separated by comma, none
resets previous values, default reset the list to new and all
is a shorthand for old,new,context. When this option is not
given, and the configuration variable diff.wsErrorHighlight
is not set, only whitespace errors in new lines are
highlighted. The whitespace errors are colored with
color.diff.whitespace.
--full-index
Instead of the first handful of characters, show the full
pre- and post-image blob object names on the "index" line
when generating patch format output.
--binary
In addition to --full-index, output a binary diff that can be
applied with git-apply. Implies --patch.
--abbrev[=<n>]
Instead of showing the full 40-byte hexadecimal object name
in diff-raw format output and diff-tree header lines, show
the shortest prefix that is at least <n> hexdigits long that
uniquely refers the object. In diff-patch output format,
--full-index takes higher precedence, i.e. if --full-index is
specified, full blob names will be shown regardless of
--abbrev. Non default number of digits can be specified with
--abbrev=<n>.
-B[<n>][/<m>], --break-rewrites[=[<n>][/<m>]]
Break complete rewrite changes into pairs of delete and
create. This serves two purposes:
It affects the way a change that amounts to a total rewrite
of a file not as a series of deletion and insertion mixed
together with a very few lines that happen to match textually
as the context, but as a single deletion of everything old
followed by a single insertion of everything new, and the
number m controls this aspect of the -B option (defaults to
60%). -B/70% specifies that less than 30% of the original
should remain in the result for Git to consider it a total
rewrite (i.e. otherwise the resulting patch will be a series
of deletion and insertion mixed together with context lines).
When used with -M, a totally-rewritten file is also
considered as the source of a rename (usually -M only
considers a file that disappeared as the source of a rename),
and the number n controls this aspect of the -B option
(defaults to 50%). -B20% specifies that a change with
addition and deletion compared to 20% or more of the file’s
size are eligible for being picked up as a possible source of
a rename to another file.
-M[<n>], --find-renames[=<n>]
If generating diffs, detect and report renames for each
commit. For following files across renames while traversing
history, see --follow. If n is specified, it is a threshold
on the similarity index (i.e. amount of addition/deletions
compared to the file’s size). For example, -M90% means Git
should consider a delete/add pair to be a rename if more than
90% of the file hasn’t changed. Without a % sign, the number
is to be read as a fraction, with a decimal point before it.
I.e., -M5 becomes 0.5, and is thus the same as -M50%.
Similarly, -M05 is the same as -M5%. To limit detection to
exact renames, use -M100%. The default similarity index is
50%.
-C[<n>], --find-copies[=<n>]
Detect copies as well as renames. See also
--find-copies-harder. If n is specified, it has the same
meaning as for -M<n>.
--find-copies-harder
For performance reasons, by default, -C option finds copies
only if the original file of the copy was modified in the
same changeset. This flag makes the command inspect
unmodified files as candidates for the source of copy. This
is a very expensive operation for large projects, so use it
with caution. Giving more than one -C option has the same
effect.
-D, --irreversible-delete
Omit the preimage for deletes, i.e. print only the header but
not the diff between the preimage and /dev/null. The
resulting patch is not meant to be applied with patch or git
apply; this is solely for people who want to just concentrate
on reviewing the text after the change. In addition, the
output obviously lacks enough information to apply such a
patch in reverse, even manually, hence the name of the
option.
When used together with -B, omit also the preimage in the
deletion part of a delete/create pair.
-l<num>
The -M and -C options involve some preliminary steps that can
detect subsets of renames/copies cheaply, followed by an
exhaustive fallback portion that compares all remaining
unpaired destinations to all relevant sources. (For renames,
only remaining unpaired sources are relevant; for copies, all
original sources are relevant.) For N sources and
destinations, this exhaustive check is O(N^2). This option
prevents the exhaustive portion of rename/copy detection from
running if the number of source/destination files involved
exceeds the specified number. Defaults to diff.renameLimit.
Note that a value of 0 is treated as unlimited.
--diff-filter=[(A|C|D|M|R|T|U|X|B)...[*]]
Select only files that are Added (A), Copied (C), Deleted
(D), Modified (M), Renamed (R), have their type (i.e. regular
file, symlink, submodule, ...) changed (T), are Unmerged (U),
are Unknown (X), or have had their pairing Broken (B). Any
combination of the filter characters (including none) can be
used. When * (All-or-none) is added to the combination, all
paths are selected if there is any file that matches other
criteria in the comparison; if there is no file that matches
other criteria, nothing is selected.
Also, these upper-case letters can be downcased to exclude.
E.g. --diff-filter=ad excludes added and deleted paths.
Note that not all diffs can feature all types. For instance,
copied and renamed entries cannot appear if detection for
those types is disabled.
-S<string>
Look for differences that change the number of occurrences of
the specified string (i.e. addition/deletion) in a file.
Intended for the scripter’s use.
It is useful when you’re looking for an exact block of code
(like a struct), and want to know the history of that block
since it first came into being: use the feature iteratively
to feed the interesting block in the preimage back into -S,
and keep going until you get the very first version of the
block.
Binary files are searched as well.
-G<regex>
Look for differences whose patch text contains added/removed
lines that match <regex>.
To illustrate the difference between -S<regex>
--pickaxe-regex and -G<regex>, consider a commit with the
following diff in the same file:
+ return frotz(nitfol, two->ptr, 1, 0);
...
- hit = frotz(nitfol, mf2.ptr, 1, 0);
While git log -G"frotz\(nitfol" will show this commit, git
log -S"frotz\(nitfol" --pickaxe-regex will not (because the
number of occurrences of that string did not change).
Unless --text is supplied patches of binary files without a
textconv filter will be ignored.
See the pickaxe entry in gitdiffcore(7) for more information.
--find-object=<object-id>
Look for differences that change the number of occurrences of
the specified object. Similar to -S, just the argument is
different in that it doesn’t search for a specific string but
for a specific object id.
The object can be a blob or a submodule commit. It implies
the -t option in git-log to also find trees.
--pickaxe-all
When -S or -G finds a change, show all the changes in that
changeset, not just the files that contain the change in
<string>.
--pickaxe-regex
Treat the <string> given to -S as an extended POSIX regular
expression to match.
-O<orderfile>
Control the order in which files appear in the output. This
overrides the diff.orderFile configuration variable (see
git-config(1)). To cancel diff.orderFile, use -O/dev/null.
The output order is determined by the order of glob patterns
in <orderfile>. All files with pathnames that match the first
pattern are output first, all files with pathnames that match
the second pattern (but not the first) are output next, and
so on. All files with pathnames that do not match any pattern
are output last, as if there was an implicit match-all
pattern at the end of the file. If multiple pathnames have
the same rank (they match the same pattern but no earlier
patterns), their output order relative to each other is the
normal order.
<orderfile> is parsed as follows:
• Blank lines are ignored, so they can be used as
separators for readability.
• Lines starting with a hash ("#") are ignored, so they can
be used for comments. Add a backslash ("\") to the
beginning of the pattern if it starts with a hash.
• Each other line contains a single pattern.
Patterns have the same syntax and semantics as patterns used
for fnmatch(3) without the FNM_PATHNAME flag, except a
pathname also matches a pattern if removing any number of the
final pathname components matches the pattern. For example,
the pattern "foo*bar" matches "fooasdfbar" and
"foo/bar/baz/asdf" but not "foobarx".
--skip-to=<file>, --rotate-to=<file>
Discard the files before the named <file> from the output
(i.e. skip to), or move them to the end of the output (i.e.
rotate to). These options were invented primarily for the use
of the git difftool command, and may not be very useful
otherwise.
-R
Swap two inputs; that is, show differences from index or
on-disk file to tree contents.
--relative[=<path>], --no-relative
When run from a subdirectory of the project, it can be told
to exclude changes outside the directory and show pathnames
relative to it with this option. When you are not in a
subdirectory (e.g. in a bare repository), you can name which
subdirectory to make the output relative to by giving a
<path> as an argument. --no-relative can be used to
countermand both diff.relative config option and previous
--relative.
-a, --text
Treat all files as text.
--ignore-cr-at-eol
Ignore carriage-return at the end of line when doing a
comparison.
--ignore-space-at-eol
Ignore changes in whitespace at EOL.
-b, --ignore-space-change
Ignore changes in amount of whitespace. This ignores
whitespace at line end, and considers all other sequences of
one or more whitespace characters to be equivalent.
-w, --ignore-all-space
Ignore whitespace when comparing lines. This ignores
differences even if one line has whitespace where the other
line has none.
--ignore-blank-lines
Ignore changes whose lines are all blank.
-I<regex>, --ignore-matching-lines=<regex>
Ignore changes whose all lines match <regex>. This option may
be specified more than once.
--inter-hunk-context=<lines>
Show the context between diff hunks, up to the specified
number of lines, thereby fusing hunks that are close to each
other. Defaults to diff.interHunkContext or 0 if the config
option is unset.
-W, --function-context
Show whole function as context lines for each change. The
function names are determined in the same way as git diff
works out patch hunk headers (see Defining a custom
hunk-header in gitattributes(5)).
--ext-diff
Allow an external diff helper to be executed. If you set an
external diff driver with gitattributes(5), you need to use
this option with git-log(1) and friends.
--no-ext-diff
Disallow external diff drivers.
--textconv, --no-textconv
Allow (or disallow) external text conversion filters to be
run when comparing binary files. See gitattributes(5) for
details. Because textconv filters are typically a one-way
conversion, the resulting diff is suitable for human
consumption, but cannot be applied. For this reason, textconv
filters are enabled by default only for git-diff(1) and
git-log(1), but not for git-format-patch(1) or diff plumbing
commands.
--ignore-submodules[=<when>]
Ignore changes to submodules in the diff generation. <when>
can be either "none", "untracked", "dirty" or "all", which is
the default. Using "none" will consider the submodule
modified when it either contains untracked or modified files
or its HEAD differs from the commit recorded in the
superproject and can be used to override any settings of the
ignore option in git-config(1) or gitmodules(5). When
"untracked" is used submodules are not considered dirty when
they only contain untracked content (but they are still
scanned for modified content). Using "dirty" ignores all
changes to the work tree of submodules, only changes to the
commits stored in the superproject are shown (this was the
behavior until 1.7.0). Using "all" hides all changes to
submodules.
--src-prefix=<prefix>
Show the given source prefix instead of "a/".
--dst-prefix=<prefix>
Show the given destination prefix instead of "b/".
--no-prefix
Do not show any source or destination prefix.
--default-prefix
Use the default source and destination prefixes ("a/" and
"b/"). This overrides configuration variables such as
diff.noprefix, diff.srcPrefix, diff.dstPrefix, and
diff.mnemonicPrefix (see git-config(1)).
--line-prefix=<prefix>
Prepend an additional prefix to every line of output.
--ita-invisible-in-index
By default entries added by "git add -N" appear as an
existing empty file in "git diff" and a new file in "git diff
--cached". This option makes the entry appear as a new file
in "git diff" and non-existent in "git diff --cached". This
option could be reverted with --ita-visible-in-index. Both
options are experimental and could be removed in future.
For more detailed explanation on these common options, see also
gitdiffcore(7).
Running git-diff(1), git-log(1), git-show(1), git-diff-index(1),
git-diff-tree(1), or git-diff-files(1) with the -p option
produces patch text. You can customize the creation of patch text
via the GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF and the GIT_DIFF_OPTS environment
variables (see git(1)), and the diff attribute (see
gitattributes(5)).
What the -p option produces is slightly different from the
traditional diff format:
1. It is preceded by a "git diff" header that looks like this:
diff --git a/file1 b/file2
The a/ and b/ filenames are the same unless rename/copy is
involved. Especially, even for a creation or a deletion,
/dev/null is not used in place of the a/ or b/ filenames.
When a rename/copy is involved, file1 and file2 show the name
of the source file of the rename/copy and the name of the
file that the rename/copy produces, respectively.
2. It is followed by one or more extended header lines:
old mode <mode>
new mode <mode>
deleted file mode <mode>
new file mode <mode>
copy from <path>
copy to <path>
rename from <path>
rename to <path>
similarity index <number>
dissimilarity index <number>
index <hash>..<hash> <mode>
File modes are printed as 6-digit octal numbers including the
file type and file permission bits.
Path names in extended headers do not include the a/ and b/
prefixes.
The similarity index is the percentage of unchanged lines,
and the dissimilarity index is the percentage of changed
lines. It is a rounded down integer, followed by a percent
sign. The similarity index value of 100% is thus reserved for
two equal files, while 100% dissimilarity means that no line
from the old file made it into the new one.
The index line includes the blob object names before and
after the change. The <mode> is included if the file mode
does not change; otherwise, separate lines indicate the old
and the new mode.
3. Pathnames with "unusual" characters are quoted as explained
for the configuration variable core.quotePath (see
git-config(1)).
4. All the file1 files in the output refer to files before the
commit, and all the file2 files refer to files after the
commit. It is incorrect to apply each change to each file
sequentially. For example, this patch will swap a and b:
diff --git a/a b/b
rename from a
rename to b
diff --git a/b b/a
rename from b
rename to a
5. Hunk headers mention the name of the function to which the
hunk applies. See "Defining a custom hunk-header" in
gitattributes(5) for details of how to tailor this to
specific languages.
Any diff-generating command can take the -c or --cc option to
produce a combined diff when showing a merge. This is the default
format when showing merges with git-diff(1) or git-show(1). Note
also that you can give suitable --diff-merges option to any of
these commands to force generation of diffs in a specific format.
A "combined diff" format looks like this:
diff --combined describe.c
index fabadb8,cc95eb0..4866510
--- a/describe.c
+++ b/describe.c
@@@ -98,20 -98,12 +98,20 @@@
return (a_date > b_date) ? -1 : (a_date == b_date) ? 0 : 1;
}
- static void describe(char *arg)
-static void describe(struct commit *cmit, int last_one)
++static void describe(char *arg, int last_one)
{
+ unsigned char sha1[20];
+ struct commit *cmit;
struct commit_list *list;
static int initialized = 0;
struct commit_name *n;
+ if (get_sha1(arg, sha1) < 0)
+ usage(describe_usage);
+ cmit = lookup_commit_reference(sha1);
+ if (!cmit)
+ usage(describe_usage);
+
if (!initialized) {
initialized = 1;
for_each_ref(get_name);
1. It is preceded by a "git diff" header, that looks like this
(when the -c option is used):
diff --combined file
or like this (when the --cc option is used):
diff --cc file
2. It is followed by one or more extended header lines (this
example shows a merge with two parents):
index <hash>,<hash>..<hash>
mode <mode>,<mode>..<mode>
new file mode <mode>
deleted file mode <mode>,<mode>
The mode <mode>,<mode>..<mode> line appears only if at least
one of the <mode> is different from the rest. Extended
headers with information about detected content movement
(renames and copying detection) are designed to work with the
diff of two <tree-ish> and are not used by combined diff
format.
3. It is followed by a two-line from-file/to-file header:
--- a/file
+++ b/file
Similar to the two-line header for the traditional unified
diff format, /dev/null is used to signal created or deleted
files.
However, if the --combined-all-paths option is provided,
instead of a two-line from-file/to-file, you get an N+1 line
from-file/to-file header, where N is the number of parents in
the merge commit:
--- a/file
--- a/file
--- a/file
+++ b/file
This extended format can be useful if rename or copy
detection is active, to allow you to see the original name of
the file in different parents.
4. Chunk header format is modified to prevent people from
accidentally feeding it to patch -p1. Combined diff format
was created for review of merge commit changes, and was not
meant to be applied. The change is similar to the change in
the extended index header:
@@@ <from-file-range> <from-file-range> <to-file-range> @@@
There are (number of parents + 1) @ characters in the chunk
header for combined diff format.
Unlike the traditional unified diff format, which shows two files
A and B with a single column that has - (minus — appears in A but
removed in B), + (plus — missing in A but added to B), or " "
(space — unchanged) prefix, this format compares two or more
files file1, file2,... with one file X, and shows how X differs
from each of fileN. One column for each of fileN is prepended to
the output line to note how X’s line is different from it.
A - character in the column N means that the line appears in
fileN but it does not appear in the result. A + character in the
column N means that the line appears in the result, and fileN
does not have that line (in other words, the line was added, from
the point of view of that parent).
In the above example output, the function signature was changed
from both files (hence two - removals from both file1 and file2,
plus ++ to mean one line that was added does not appear in either
file1 or file2). Also, eight other lines are the same from file1
but do not appear in file2 (hence prefixed with +).
When shown by git diff-tree -c, it compares the parents of a
merge commit with the merge result (i.e. file1..fileN are the
parents). When shown by git diff-files -c, it compares the two
unresolved merge parents with the working tree file (i.e. file1
is stage 2 aka "our version", file2 is stage 3 aka "their
version").
git show v1.0.0
Shows the tag v1.0.0, along with the object the tag points
at.
git show v1.0.0^{tree}
Shows the tree pointed to by the tag v1.0.0.
git show -s --format=%s v1.0.0^{commit}
Shows the subject of the commit pointed to by the tag v1.0.0.
git show next~10:Documentation/README
Shows the contents of the file Documentation/README as they
were current in the 10th last commit of the branch next.
git show master:Makefile master:t/Makefile
Concatenates the contents of said Makefiles in the head of
the branch master.
Git is to some extent character encoding agnostic.
• The contents of the blob objects are uninterpreted sequences
of bytes. There is no encoding translation at the core level.
• Path names are encoded in UTF-8 normalization form C. This
applies to tree objects, the index file, ref names, as well
as path names in command line arguments, environment
variables and config files (.git/config (see git-config(1)),
gitignore(5), gitattributes(5) and gitmodules(5)).
Note that Git at the core level treats path names simply as
sequences of non-NUL bytes, there are no path name encoding
conversions (except on Mac and Windows). Therefore, using
non-ASCII path names will mostly work even on platforms and
file systems that use legacy extended ASCII encodings.
However, repositories created on such systems will not work
properly on UTF-8-based systems (e.g. Linux, Mac, Windows)
and vice versa. Additionally, many Git-based tools simply
assume path names to be UTF-8 and will fail to display other
encodings correctly.
• Commit log messages are typically encoded in UTF-8, but other
extended ASCII encodings are also supported. This includes
ISO-8859-x, CP125x and many others, but not UTF-16/32, EBCDIC
and CJK multi-byte encodings (GBK, Shift-JIS, Big5, EUC-x,
CP9xx etc.).
Although we encourage that the commit log messages are encoded in
UTF-8, both the core and Git Porcelain are designed not to force
UTF-8 on projects. If all participants of a particular project
find it more convenient to use legacy encodings, Git does not
forbid it. However, there are a few things to keep in mind.
1. git commit and git commit-tree issue a warning if the commit
log message given to it does not look like a valid UTF-8
string, unless you explicitly say your project uses a legacy
encoding. The way to say this is to have i18n.commitEncoding
in .git/config file, like this:
[i18n]
commitEncoding = ISO-8859-1
Commit objects created with the above setting record the
value of i18n.commitEncoding in their encoding header. This
is to help other people who look at them later. Lack of this
header implies that the commit log message is encoded in
UTF-8.
2. git log, git show, git blame and friends look at the encoding
header of a commit object, and try to re-code the log message
into UTF-8 unless otherwise specified. You can specify the
desired output encoding with i18n.logOutputEncoding in
.git/config file, like this:
[i18n]
logOutputEncoding = ISO-8859-1
If you do not have this configuration variable, the value of
i18n.commitEncoding is used instead.
Note that we deliberately chose not to re-code the commit log
message when a commit is made to force UTF-8 at the commit object
level, because re-coding to UTF-8 is not necessarily a reversible
operation.
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