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authorDavid Kågedal <davidk@lysator.liu.se>2009-07-28 10:32:18 +0200
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2009-07-28 13:32:59 -0700
commitf552e51ef9d376c17fa707b7af9582108f4ec81c (patch)
treee0c0c616821f3b9cf7c3fa2d288b3ca654943f95 /Documentation
parent02944cc4929c6a7438dbde9216f9ebb193f1ae81 (diff)
downloadgit-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')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/diff-format.txt8
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-diff-files.txt3
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-diff-index.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-diff-tree.txt3
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-diff.txt3
5 files changed, 10 insertions, 9 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:
diff --git a/Documentation/git-diff-files.txt b/Documentation/git-diff-files.txt
index c526141564..4ef03578eb 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-diff-files.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-diff-files.txt
@@ -43,8 +43,7 @@ omit diff output for unmerged entries and just show "Unmerged".
-q::
Remain silent even on nonexistent files
-Output format
--------------
+
include::diff-format.txt[]
diff --git a/Documentation/git-diff-index.txt b/Documentation/git-diff-index.txt
index 26920d4f63..8b9ed29299 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-diff-index.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-diff-index.txt
@@ -34,8 +34,6 @@ include::diff-options.txt[]
'git-diff-index' say that all non-checked-out files are up
to date.
-Output format
--------------
include::diff-format.txt[]
Operating Modes
diff --git a/Documentation/git-diff-tree.txt b/Documentation/git-diff-tree.txt
index 23b7abd3c6..f2cef1260b 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-diff-tree.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-diff-tree.txt
@@ -159,8 +159,7 @@ HEAD commits it finds, which is even more interesting.
in case you care).
-Output format
--------------
+
include::diff-format.txt[]
diff --git a/Documentation/git-diff.txt b/Documentation/git-diff.txt
index a2f192fb75..0ac711230e 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-diff.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-diff.txt
@@ -84,8 +84,7 @@ include::diff-options.txt[]
the diff to the named paths (you can give directory
names and get diff for all files under them).
-Output format
--------------
+
include::diff-format.txt[]
EXAMPLES