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-rw-r--r--Documentation/diff-format.txt6
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-diff-index.txt6
2 files changed, 6 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/diff-format.txt b/Documentation/diff-format.txt
index 7a9c3b6ff4..a3ae8747a2 100644
--- a/Documentation/diff-format.txt
+++ b/Documentation/diff-format.txt
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ That is, from the left to the right:
. a space.
. sha1 for "src"; 0\{40\} if creation or unmerged.
. a space.
-. sha1 for "dst"; 0\{40\} if creation, unmerged or "look at work tree".
+. sha1 for "dst"; 0\{40\} if deletion, unmerged or "work tree out of sync with the index".
. a space.
. status, followed by optional "score" number.
. a tab or a NUL when `-z` option is used.
@@ -69,8 +69,8 @@ percentage of similarity between the source and target of the move or
copy). Status letter M may be followed by a score (denoting the
percentage of dissimilarity) for file rewrites.
-<sha1> is shown as all 0's if a file is new on the filesystem
-and it is out of sync with the index.
+The sha1 for "dst" is shown as all 0's if a file on the filesystem
+is out of sync with the index.
Example:
diff --git a/Documentation/git-diff-index.txt b/Documentation/git-diff-index.txt
index 679cae27d9..c30d8f0da8 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-diff-index.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-diff-index.txt
@@ -69,8 +69,8 @@ done an `update-index` to make that effective in the index file.
matches my working directory. But doing a 'git diff-index' does:
torvalds@ppc970:~/git> git diff-index --cached HEAD
- -100644 blob 4161aecc6700a2eb579e842af0b7f22b98443f74 commit.c
- +100644 blob 4161aecc6700a2eb579e842af0b7f22b98443f74 git-commit.c
+ :100644 000000 4161aecc6700a2eb579e842af0b7f22b98443f74 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000 D commit.c
+ :000000 100644 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000 4161aecc6700a2eb579e842af0b7f22b98443f74 A git-commit.c
You can see easily that the above is a rename.
@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ have not actually done a 'git update-index' on it yet - there is no
"object" associated with the new state, and you get:
torvalds@ppc970:~/v2.6/linux> git diff-index --abbrev HEAD
- :100644 100664 7476bb... 000000... kernel/sched.c
+ :100644 100644 7476bb5ba 000000000 M kernel/sched.c
i.e., it shows that the tree has changed, and that `kernel/sched.c` is
not up to date and may contain new stuff. The all-zero sha1 means that to