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authorJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2020-11-02 13:17:39 -0800
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2020-11-02 13:17:39 -0800
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Merge branch 'dl/diff-merge-base'
"git diff A...B" learned "git diff --merge-base A B", which is a longer short-hand to say the same thing. * dl/diff-merge-base: contrib/completion: complete `git diff --merge-base` builtin/diff-tree: learn --merge-base builtin/diff-index: learn --merge-base t4068: add --merge-base tests diff-lib: define diff_get_merge_base() diff-lib: accept option flags in run_diff_index() contrib/completion: extract common diff/difftool options git-diff.txt: backtick quote command text git-diff-index.txt: make --cached description a proper sentence t4068: remove unnecessary >tmp
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@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ SYNOPSIS
--------
[verse]
'git diff-tree' [--stdin] [-m] [-s] [-v] [--no-commit-id] [--pretty]
- [-t] [-r] [-c | --cc] [--combined-all-paths] [--root]
+ [-t] [-r] [-c | --cc] [--combined-all-paths] [--root] [--merge-base]
[<common diff options>] <tree-ish> [<tree-ish>] [<path>...]
DESCRIPTION
@@ -43,6 +43,11 @@ include::diff-options.txt[]
When `--root` is specified the initial commit will be shown as a big
creation event. This is equivalent to a diff against the NULL tree.
+--merge-base::
+ Instead of comparing the <tree-ish>s directly, use the merge
+ base between the two <tree-ish>s as the "before" side. There
+ must be two <tree-ish>s given and they must both be commits.
+
--stdin::
When `--stdin` is specified, the command does not take
<tree-ish> arguments from the command line. Instead, it