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authorJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2011-07-06 15:38:18 -0700
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2011-07-06 15:38:18 -0700
commit71ee7fd15457a0252c089420b5b66de266dcbd2f (patch)
tree98d4d7d1f72c30fd7695f011be78d3e45158c41a /Documentation/diff-generate-patch.txt
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downloadgit-71ee7fd15457a0252c089420b5b66de266dcbd2f.tar.xz
Merge commit 'v1.7.0' into jc/checkout-reflog-fix
* commit 'v1.7.0': (4188 commits) Git 1.7.0 Fix typo in 1.6.6.2 release notes Re-fix check-ref-format documentation mark-up archive documentation: attributes are taken from the tree by default Documentation: minor fixes to RelNotes-1.7.0 bash: support 'git am's new '--continue' option filter-branch: Fix error message for --prune-empty --commit-filter am: switch --resolved to --continue Update draft release notes to 1.7.0 one more time Git 1.6.6.2 t8003: check exit code of command and error message separately check-ref-format documentation: fix enumeration mark-up Documentation: quote braces in {upstream} notation t3902: Protect against OS X normalization blame: prevent a segv when -L given start > EOF git-push: document all the status flags used in the output Fix parsing of imap.preformattedHTML and imap.sslverify git-add documentation: Fix shell quoting example Revert "pack-objects: fix pack generation when using pack_size_limit" archive: simplify archive format guessing ...
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@@ -143,15 +143,15 @@ different from it.
A `-` character in the column N means that the line appears in
fileN but it does not appear in the result. A `+` character
-in the column N means that the line appears in the last file,
+in the column N means that the line appears in the result,
and fileN does not have that line (in other words, the line was
added, from the point of view of that parent).
In the above example output, the function signature was changed
from both files (hence two `-` removals from both file1 and
file2, plus `++` to mean one line that was added does not appear
-in either file1 nor file2). Also two other lines are the same
-from file1 but do not appear in file2 (hence prefixed with ` +`).
+in either file1 nor file2). Also eight other lines are the same
+from file1 but do not appear in file2 (hence prefixed with `{plus}`).
When shown by `git diff-tree -c`, it compares the parents of a
merge commit with the merge result (i.e. file1..fileN are the