.. _borg_diff:

borg diff
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::

    usage: borg diff [-h] [-v] [--debug] [--lock-wait N] [--show-version]
                     [--show-rc] [--no-files-cache] [--umask M]
                     [--remote-path PATH] [-e PATTERN]
                     [--exclude-from EXCLUDEFILE] [--numeric-owner]
                     [--same-chunker-params] [--sort]
                     ARCHIVE1 ARCHIVE2 [PATH [PATH ...]]
    
    Diff contents of two archives
    
    positional arguments:
      ARCHIVE1              archive
      ARCHIVE2              archive to compare with ARCHIVE1 (no repository
                            location)
      PATH                  paths to compare; patterns are supported
    
    optional arguments:
      -h, --help            show this help message and exit
      -v, --verbose, --info
                            enable informative (verbose) output, work on log level
                            INFO
      --debug               enable debug output, work on log level DEBUG
      --lock-wait N         wait for the lock, but max. N seconds (default: 1).
      --show-version        show/log the borg version
      --show-rc             show/log the return code (rc)
      --no-files-cache      do not load/update the file metadata cache used to
                            detect unchanged files
      --umask M             set umask to M (local and remote, default: 0077)
      --remote-path PATH    set remote path to executable (default: "borg")
      -e PATTERN, --exclude PATTERN
                            exclude paths matching PATTERN
      --exclude-from EXCLUDEFILE
                            read exclude patterns from EXCLUDEFILE, one per line
      --numeric-owner       only consider numeric user and group identifiers
      --same-chunker-params
                            Override check of chunker parameters.
      --sort                Sort the output lines by file path.
    
Description
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This command finds differences in files (contents, user, group, mode) between archives.

Both archives need to be in the same repository, and a repository location may only
be specified for ARCHIVE1.

For archives created with Borg 1.1 or newer diff automatically detects whether
the archives are created with the same chunker params. If so, only chunk IDs
are compared, which is very fast.

For archives prior to Borg 1.1 chunk contents are compared by default.
If you did not create the archives with different chunker params,
pass --same-chunker-params.
Note that the chunker params changed from Borg 0.xx to 1.0.

See the output of the "borg help patterns" command for more help on exclude patterns.