STG-MDIFF(1)

📦 version 2.6.1, in ubuntu stonking

💖 STG-MDIFF 💖

okay bestie, welcome to stg-mdiff — one of the StGit contributed scripts, and honestly? it's giving meta. 🦋

✨ NAME ✨

stg-mdiff — display meta-diffs (diffs of diffs) 💅

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

stg-mdiff [-o diff-flags] [-O gitdiff-flags] spec1 spec2

🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

so, stg-mdiff takes two patch states and shows you the difference between their diffs. that's right, it's a diff of diffs, we're going full inception mode, no cap. 😭

its main character use case is showing how a patch has evolved over time — like a glow-up, but for your code. ⭐

each spec argument is either a patch name or a revision range in from..to form. two of them. that's the whole vibe.

💅 OPTIONS 💅

  • -o diff-flags — passes diff-flags straight to the outer diff(1) invocation. it's the outer layer, the aesthetic, the packaging. 🎁
  • -O gitdiff-flags — passes gitdiff-flags straight to the inner stg-diff(1) invocation. lowercase -o for the outside, capital -O for the inside. yes bestie, case matters, iykyk. 🔥

🌈 EXAMPLES 🌈

wanna see how patch foo changed relative to the stable branch? say less:

stg-mdiff foo@stable foo

that's it. that's the example. she ate. 👑

🫶 SEE ALSO 🫶

stg(1), diff(1)

and that's the whole page, fr fr 💜 this one's from stgit, dated 2026-06-07 — go forth and diff your diffs, bestie, you're literally so good at this 🧚✨

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