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| author | Gerrit Pape <pape@smarden.org> | 2007-10-31 16:59:16 +0300 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2007-11-02 03:07:22 +0300 |
| commit | 9e6c723087def70d001740db48cf042b77a1d9cd (patch) | |
| tree | c41e32835707297d5965061e6841599f2d7378eb /Documentation/diff-format.txt | |
| parent | 136e6316705e9e83cbb09c2a9ac4cb29c3e4662d (diff) | |
git-diff.txt: add section "output format" describing the diff formats
git-diff.txt includes diff-options.txt which for the -p option refers
to a section "generating patches.." which is missing from the git-diff
documentation. This patch adapts diff-format.txt to additionally
mention the git-diff program, and includes diff-format.txt into
git-diff.txt.
Tino Keitel noticed this problem.
Signed-off-by: Gerrit Pape <pape@smarden.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/diff-format.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/diff-format.txt | 19 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/diff-format.txt b/Documentation/diff-format.txt index 001503205b..9709c35c98 100644 --- a/Documentation/diff-format.txt +++ b/Documentation/diff-format.txt @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ -The output format from "git-diff-index", "git-diff-tree" and -"git-diff-files" are very similar. +The output format from "git-diff-index", "git-diff-tree", +"git-diff-files" and "git diff --raw" are very similar. These commands all compare two sets of things; what is compared differs: @@ -62,7 +62,8 @@ respectively. diff format for merges ---------------------- -"git-diff-tree" and "git-diff-files" can take '-c' or '--cc' option +"git-diff-tree", "git-diff-files" and "git-diff --raw" +can take '-c' or '--cc' option to generate diff output also for merge commits. The output differs from the format described above in the following way: @@ -86,10 +87,10 @@ Generating patches with -p -------------------------- When "git-diff-index", "git-diff-tree", or "git-diff-files" are run -with a '-p' option, they do not produce the output described above; -instead they produce a patch file. You can customize the creation -of such patches via the GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF and the GIT_DIFF_OPTS -environment variables. +with a '-p' option, or "git diff" without the '--raw' option, they +do not produce the output described above; instead they produce a +patch file. You can customize the creation of such patches via the +GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF and the GIT_DIFF_OPTS environment variables. What the -p option produces is slightly different from the traditional diff format. @@ -137,8 +138,8 @@ file made it into the new one. combined diff format -------------------- -git-diff-tree and git-diff-files can take '-c' or '--cc' option -to produce 'combined diff', which looks like this: +"git-diff-tree", "git-diff-files" and "git-diff" can take '-c' or +'--cc' option to produce 'combined diff', which looks like this: ------------ diff --combined describe.c |