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yangdiff-pro Introduction

The yangdiff-pro program is used to compare two revisions of the same YANG file.

yangdiff-pro Features

The yangdiff-pro program has the following features:

The conceptual YANG object trees are compared, not the actual YANG statements.
Two separate subtrees of modules can be compared, not just 1 file at a time.
The differences report format for differences is easy to read, and can be configured with 2 different levels of verbosity.
A YANG revision statement can be automatically generated instead of a list of differences. This will include an English text summary of the differences found.

Starting yangdiff-pro

The current working directory in use when yangdiff-pro is invoked is important. It is most convenient to run yangdiff-pro from a work directory, rather than the installation directory or within the module library.

The yangdiff-pro program can be invoked several ways:

To get the current version and exit:
```
> yangdiff-pro --version
```

To get program help and exit:

> yangdiff-pro --help
> yangdiff-pro --help --brief
> yangdiff-pro --help --full

To compare a new YANG module named 'foo', with an old version named foo.2008-09-01.yang, the following command line can be used
```
> yangdiff-pro --old=foo.2008-09-01.yang --new=foo
```
To get all the configuration parameters from a text file named '~/yangdiff-pro-project1.conf':
```
> yangdiff-pro --config=~/yangdiff-pro-project1.conf
```
To generate a terse differences report called ~/project-X-diffs.log for the old files in the '/public/project-X/modules' with the new modules in the '~/work' directory:
```
> yangdiff-pro --difftype=terse --output=~/project-X-diffs.log \
   --old=/public/project-X/modules --new=/work
```
To generate a revision statement differences to ~/foo-projectX-revision.txt for the '~/work/foo.yang' module, with the old version in the in the '/public/project-X/modules':
```
> yangdiff-pro --difftype=revision --output=~/foo-project-X-revision.txt \
   --old=/public/project-X/modules --new=/work/foo.yang
```

Stopping yangdiff-pro

There is no interactive mode for yangdiff-pro, so there is no need for a command to exit the program.

The Control C character sequence can be used to cancel the yangdiff-pro processing in progress. However, this will leave any partially completed output files in place.

yangdiff-pro Configuration Parameter List

The following configuration parameters are used by yangdiff-pro. Refer to the CLI Reference for more details.

yangdiff-pro CLI Parameters

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Parameter	Description
--config	Specifies the configuration file to use for parameters.
--datapath	Sets the data file search path.
--difftype	Specifies the type of differences report that should be output.
--feature-disable	Leaf list of features to disable
--feature-enable	Specifies a feature that should be enabled
--feature-enable-default	Specifies if a feature should be enabled or disabled by default
--header	Specifies whether the module header data should be compared or not.
--help	Get context-sensitive help, then exit.
--help-mode	Adjust the help output (--brief, or --full).
--home	Override $HOME environment variable
--indent	Specifies the indent count to use when writing data.
--log	Specifies the log file to use instead of STDOUT.
--log-append	Controls whether a log file will be reused or overwritten.
--log-level	Specifies verbosity level of log message output
--modpath	Sets the module search path.
--new	Specifies the location of the new revision to compare.
--no-config	Specifies that the default config file should not be loaded
--old	Specifies the location of the old revision to compare.
--output	Specifies where output files should be generated.
--runpath	Sets the executable file search path.
--subdirs	Controls whether sub-directories are searched for YANG files.
--version	Prints the program version and then exit.
--warn-idlen	Controls how identifier lengths are checked.
--warn-error	Treat all warnings as errors
--warn-linelen	Controls how line lengths are checked.
--warn-off	Suppresses the specified warning number.
--warn-up	Elevates the specified warning number to an error
--yumapro-home	Specifies the $YUMAPRO_HOME project root to use when searching for files.