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diff --git a/Documentation/git-diff-pairs.adoc b/Documentation/git-diff-pairs.adoc index e31f2e2fbb..f99fcd1ead 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-diff-pairs.adoc +++ b/Documentation/git-diff-pairs.adoc @@ -17,6 +17,10 @@ in the NUL-terminated raw output format as generated by commands such as `git diff-tree -z -r --raw`. By default, the outputted diffs are computed and shown in the patch format when stdin closes. +A single NUL byte may be written to stdin between raw input lines to compute +file pair diffs up to that point instead of waiting for stdin to close. A NUL +byte is also written to the output to delimit between these batches of diffs. + Usage of this command enables the traditional diff pipeline to be broken up into separate stages where `diff-pairs` acts as the output phase. Other commands, such as `diff-tree`, may serve as a frontend to compute the raw |