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authorJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2011-07-06 15:37:42 -0700
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2011-07-06 15:37:42 -0700
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Merge commit 'v1.6.0' into jc/checkout-reflog-fix
* commit 'v1.6.0': (2063 commits) GIT 1.6.0 git-p4: chdir now properly sets PWD environment variable in msysGit Improve error output of git-rebase t9300: replace '!' with test_must_fail Git.pm: Make File::Spec and File::Temp requirement lazy Documentation: document the pager.* configuration setting git-stash: improve synopsis in help and manual page Makefile: building git in cygwin 1.7.0 git-am: ignore --binary option bash-completion: Add non-command git help files to bash-completion Fix t3700 on filesystems which do not support question marks in names Utilise our new p4_read_pipe and p4_write_pipe wrappers Add p4 read_pipe and write_pipe wrappers bash completion: Add '--merge' long option for 'git log' bash completion: Add completion for 'git mergetool' git format-patch documentation: clarify what --cover-letter does bash completion: 'git apply' should use 'fix' not 'strip' t5304-prune: adjust file mtime based on system time rather than file mtime test-parse-options: use appropriate cast in length_callback Fix escaping of glob special characters in pathspecs ... Conflicts: builtin-checkout.c
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-diff-tree.txt36
1 files changed, 18 insertions, 18 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-diff-tree.txt b/Documentation/git-diff-tree.txt
index 58d02c6a20..1fdf20dcc9 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-diff-tree.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-diff-tree.txt
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ git-diff-tree - Compares the content and mode of blobs found via two tree object
SYNOPSIS
--------
[verse]
-'git-diff-tree' [--stdin] [-m] [-s] [-v] [--no-commit-id] [--pretty]
+'git diff-tree' [--stdin] [-m] [-s] [-v] [--no-commit-id] [--pretty]
[-t] [-r] [-c | --cc] [--root] [<common diff options>]
<tree-ish> [<tree-ish>] [<path>...]
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ Compares the content and mode of the blobs found via two tree objects.
If there is only one <tree-ish> given, the commit is compared with its parents
(see --stdin below).
-Note that "git-diff-tree" can use the tree encapsulated in a commit object.
+Note that 'git-diff-tree' can use the tree encapsulated in a commit object.
OPTIONS
-------
@@ -49,34 +49,34 @@ include::diff-options.txt[]
--stdin::
When '--stdin' is specified, the command does not take
<tree-ish> arguments from the command line. Instead, it
- reads either one <commit> or a pair of <tree-ish>
+ reads either one <commit> or a list of <commit>
separated with a single space from its standard input.
+
When a single commit is given on one line of such input, it compares
the commit with its parents. The following flags further affects its
-behavior. This does not apply to the case where two <tree-ish>
-separated with a single space are given.
+behavior. The remaining commits, when given, are used as if they are
+parents of the first commit.
-m::
- By default, "git-diff-tree --stdin" does not show
+ By default, 'git-diff-tree --stdin' does not show
differences for merge commits. With this flag, it shows
differences to that commit from all of its parents. See
also '-c'.
-s::
- By default, "git-diff-tree --stdin" shows differences,
+ By default, 'git-diff-tree --stdin' shows differences,
either in machine-readable form (without '-p') or in patch
form (with '-p'). This output can be suppressed. It is
only useful with '-v' flag.
-v::
- This flag causes "git-diff-tree --stdin" to also show
+ This flag causes 'git-diff-tree --stdin' to also show
the commit message before the differences.
include::pretty-options.txt[]
--no-commit-id::
- git-diff-tree outputs a line with the commit ID when
+ 'git-diff-tree' outputs a line with the commit ID when
applicable. This flag suppressed the commit ID output.
-c::
@@ -93,11 +93,11 @@ include::pretty-options.txt[]
This flag changes the way a merge commit patch is displayed,
in a similar way to the '-c' option. It implies the '-c'
and '-p' options and further compresses the patch output
- by omitting hunks that show differences from only one
- parent, or show the same change from all but one parent
- for an Octopus merge. When this optimization makes all
- hunks disappear, the commit itself and the commit log
- message is not shown, just like in any other "empty diff" case.
+ by omitting uninteresting hunks whose the contents in the parents
+ have only two variants and the merge result picks one of them
+ without modification. When all hunks are uninteresting, the commit
+ itself and the commit log message is not shown, just like in any other
+ "empty diff" case.
--always::
Show the commit itself and the commit log message even
@@ -112,13 +112,13 @@ Limiting Output
If you're only interested in differences in a subset of files, for
example some architecture-specific files, you might do:
- git-diff-tree -r <tree-ish> <tree-ish> arch/ia64 include/asm-ia64
+ git diff-tree -r <tree-ish> <tree-ish> arch/ia64 include/asm-ia64
and it will only show you what changed in those two directories.
Or if you are searching for what changed in just `kernel/sched.c`, just do
- git-diff-tree -r <tree-ish> <tree-ish> kernel/sched.c
+ git diff-tree -r <tree-ish> <tree-ish> kernel/sched.c
and it will ignore all differences to other files.
@@ -129,7 +129,7 @@ so it can be used to name subdirectories.
An example of normal usage is:
- torvalds@ppc970:~/git> git-diff-tree 5319e4......
+ torvalds@ppc970:~/git> git diff-tree 5319e4......
*100664->100664 blob ac348b.......->a01513....... git-fsck-objects.c
which tells you that the last commit changed just one file (it's from
@@ -165,4 +165,4 @@ Documentation by David Greaves, Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel
GIT
---
-Part of the linkgit:git[7] suite
+Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite