Update the documentation of the raw diff output format

This includes mentioning the initial hash output of diff-tree, and
changes the header to "raw output format" which is more descriptive.

Signed-off-by: David Kågedal <davidk@lysator.liu.se>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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David Kågedal
2009-07-28 10:32:18 +02:00
committed by Junio C Hamano
parent 02944cc492
commit f552e51ef9
5 changed files with 10 additions and 9 deletions

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The output format from "git-diff-index", "git-diff-tree",
Raw output format
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The raw output format from "git-diff-index", "git-diff-tree",
"git-diff-files" and "git diff --raw" are very similar.
These commands all compare two sets of things; what is
@ -16,6 +19,9 @@ git-diff-tree [-r] <tree-ish-1> <tree-ish-2> [<pattern>...]::
git-diff-files [<pattern>...]::
compares the index and the files on the filesystem.
The "git-diff-tree" command begins its ouput by printing the hash of
what is being compared. After that, all the commands print one output
line per changed file.
An output line is formatted this way: