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Marian Beermann 0a369c0985
Better help texts and Sphinx reproduction of usage
- Group options
- Nicer list of options in Sphinx
- Deduplicate 'Common options'
  (including --help)

The latter is done by explicitly declaring --help in the common_parser,
which is then inherited by the sub-parsers; no change in observable
behaviour.
2016-04-10 01:28:19 +02:00

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.. _borg_diff:
borg diff
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::
borg diff <options> ARCHIVE1 ARCHIVE2 PATH
positional arguments
ARCHIVE1
archive
ARCHIVE2
archive to compare with ARCHIVE1 (no repository location)
PATH
paths to compare; patterns are supported
optional arguments
``-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.
`Common options`_
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Description
~~~~~~~~~~~
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.