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author | J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu> | 2007-11-19 03:18:27 +0300 |
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committer | J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu> | 2007-11-19 03:22:26 +0300 |
commit | 5b98d9bca16e19710380d2d03f704de9eb98621d (patch) | |
tree | 29a333487563dae1dc88fa0c699641783b0e081a | |
parent | 3fb00282538409daf4d05ce4631a2c3eae235c69 (diff) |
user-manual: mention "..." in "Generating diffs", etc.
We should mention the use of the "..." syntax for git-diff here. The
note about the difference between diff and the combined output of
git-format-patch then no longer fits so well, so remove it. Add a
reference to the git-format-patch[1] manpage.
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/user-manual.txt | 15 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/user-manual.txt b/Documentation/user-manual.txt index e399685d6c..c027353337 100644 --- a/Documentation/user-manual.txt +++ b/Documentation/user-manual.txt @@ -658,16 +658,23 @@ gitlink:git-diff[1]: $ git diff master..test ------------------------------------------------- -Sometimes what you want instead is a set of patches: +That will produce the diff between the tips of the two branches. If +you'd prefer to find the diff from their common ancestor to test, you +can use three dots instead of two: + +------------------------------------------------- +$ git diff master...test +------------------------------------------------- + +Sometimes what you want instead is a set of patches; for this you can +use gitlink:git-format-patch[1]: ------------------------------------------------- $ git format-patch master..test ------------------------------------------------- will generate a file with a patch for each commit reachable from test -but not from master. Note that if master also has commits which are -not reachable from test, then the combined result of these patches -will not be the same as the diff produced by the git-diff example. +but not from master. [[viewing-old-file-versions]] Viewing old file versions |