[PATCH] diff overhaul

This cleans up the way calls are made into the diff core from diff-tree
family and diff-helper.  Earlier, these programs had "if
(generating_patch)" sprinkled all over the place, but those ugliness are
gone and handled uniformly from the diff core, even when not generating
patch format.

This also allowed diff-cache and diff-files to acquire -R
(reverse) option to generate diff in reverse.  Users of
diff-tree can swap two trees easily so I did not add -R there.

[ Linus' note: I'll add -R to "diff-tree" too, since a "commit
  diff" doesn't have another tree to switch around: the other
  tree is always the parent(s) of the commit ]

Also -M<digits-as-mantissa> suggestion made by Linus has been
implemented.

Documentation updates are also included.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Documentation/git-diff-cache.txt

@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ git-diff-cache - Compares content and mode of blobs between the cache and reposi
 
 SYNOPSIS
 --------
-'git-diff-cache' [-p] [-r] [-z] [-m] [-M] [--cached] <tree-ish>
+'git-diff-cache' [-p] [-r] [-z] [-m] [-M] [-R] [--cached] <tree-ish>
 
 DESCRIPTION
 -----------
@@ -36,6 +36,9 @@ OPTIONS
 -M::
 	Detect renames; implies -p.
 
+-R::
+	Output diff in reverse.
+
 --cached::
 	do not consider the on-disk file at all
 

Documentation/git-diff-files.txt

@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ git-diff-files - Compares files in the working tree and the cache
 
 SYNOPSIS
 --------
-'git-diff-files' [-p] [-q] [-r] [-z] [-M] [<pattern>...]
+'git-diff-files' [-p] [-q] [-r] [-z] [-M] [-R] [<pattern>...]
 
 DESCRIPTION
 -----------
@@ -26,6 +26,9 @@ OPTIONS
 -q::
 	Remain silent even on nonexisting files
 
+-R::
+	Output diff in reverse.
+
 -M::
 	Detect renames; implies -p.