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| author | David Kågedal <davidk@lysator.liu.se> | 2009-07-28 10:32:18 +0200 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2009-07-28 13:32:59 -0700 |
| commit | f552e51ef9d376c17fa707b7af9582108f4ec81c (patch) | |
| tree | e0c0c616821f3b9cf7c3fa2d288b3ca654943f95 /Documentation/diff-format.txt | |
| parent | 02944cc4929c6a7438dbde9216f9ebb193f1ae81 (diff) | |
| download | git-f552e51ef9d376c17fa707b7af9582108f4ec81c.tar.gz | |
Update the documentation of the raw diff output format
This includes mentioning the initial hash output of diff-tree, and
changes the header to "raw output format" which is more descriptive.
Signed-off-by: David Kågedal <davidk@lysator.liu.se>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/diff-format.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/diff-format.txt | 8 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/diff-format.txt b/Documentation/diff-format.txt index 1eeb1c7683..b71712473e 100644 --- a/Documentation/diff-format.txt +++ b/Documentation/diff-format.txt @@ -1,4 +1,7 @@ -The output format from "git-diff-index", "git-diff-tree", +Raw output format +----------------- + +The raw 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 @@ -16,6 +19,9 @@ git-diff-tree [-r] <tree-ish-1> <tree-ish-2> [<pattern>...]:: git-diff-files [<pattern>...]:: compares the index and the files on the filesystem. +The "git-diff-tree" command begins its ouput by printing the hash of +what is being compared. After that, all the commands print one output +line per changed file. An output line is formatted this way: |