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diff3

DIFF3(1)							     GNU Tools								  DIFF3(1)

NAME

       diff3 - find differences between three files

SYNOPSIS

       diff3 [options] mine older yours

DESCRIPTION

       The diff3 command compares three files and outputs descriptions of their differences.

       The  files  to  compare are mine, older, and yours.  At most one of these three file names may be -, which tells diff3 to read the standard
       input for that file.

   Options
       Below is a summary of all of the options that GNU diff3 accepts.  Multiple single letter options (unless they take an argument) can be com-
       bined into a single command line argument.

       -a     Treat all files as text and compare them line-by-line, even if they do not appear to be text.

       -A     Incorporate all changes from older to yours into mine, surrounding all conflicts with bracket lines.

       -B     Old behavior of -A.  Shows non-conflicts.

       -e     Generate an ed script that incorporates all the changes from older to yours into mine.

       -E     Like -e, except bracket lines from overlapping changes' first and third files.  With -e, an overlapping change looks like this:

	      <<<<<<< mine
	      lines from mine
	      =======
	      lines from yours
	      >>>>>>> yours

       --ed   Generate an ed script that incorporates all the changes from older to yours into mine.

       --easy-only
	      Like -e, except output only the nonoverlapping changes.

       -i     Generate	w  and	q  commands  at the end of the ed script for System V compatibility.  This option must be combined with one of the
	      -AeExX3 options, and may not be combined with -m.

       --initial-tab
	      Output a tab rather than two spaces before the text of a line in normal format.  This causes the alignment of tabs in  the  line	to
	      look normal.

       -L label
       --label=label
	      Use  the label label for the brackets output by the -A, -E and -X options.  This option may be given up to three times, one for each
	      input file.  The default labels are the names of the input files.  Thus diff3 -L X -L Y -L Z -m A B C acts like diff3 -m	A  B  C  ,
	      except that the output looks like it came from files named X, Y and Z rather than from files named A, B and C.

       -m
       --merge
	      Apply  the  edit	script	to the first file and send the result to standard output.  Unlike piping the output from diff3 to ed, this
	      works even for binary files and incomplete lines.  -A is assumed if no edit script option is specified.

       --overlap-only
	      Like -e, except output only the overlapping changes.

       --show-all
	      Incorporate all unmerged changes from older to yours into mine, surrounding all overlapping changes with bracket lines.

       --show-overlap
	      Like -e, except bracket lines from overlapping changes' first and third files.

       -T     Output a tab rather than two spaces before the text of a line in normal format.  This causes the alignment of tabs in  the  line	to
	      look normal.

       --text Treat all files as text and compare them line-by-line, even if they do not appear to be text.

       -v
       --version
	      Output the version number of diff3.

       -x     Like -e, except output only the overlapping changes.

       -X     Like -E, except output only the overlapping changes.  In other words, like -x, except bracket changes as in -E.

       -3     Like -e, except output only the nonoverlapping changes.

SEE ALSO

       cmp(1), comm(1), diff(1), ed(1), patch(1), sdiff(1).

DIAGNOSTICS

       An exit status of 0 means diff3 was successful, 1 means some conflicts were found, and 2 means trouble.

GNU Tools							     22sep1993								  DIFF3(1)

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