[PATCH] Documentation: describe git extended diff headers.
The documentation failed to describe "diff --git" extended diff headers, so add some. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>maint
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When "git-diff-cache", "git-diff-tree", or "git-diff-files" are run
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When "git-diff-cache", "git-diff-tree", or "git-diff-files" are run
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with a '-p' option, they do not produce the output described above
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with a '-p' option, they do not produce the output described above;
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instead they produce a patch file.
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instead they produce a patch file.
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The patch generation can be customized at two levels. This
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The patch generation can be customized at two levels. This
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For a path that is unmerged, 'GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF' is called with 1
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For a path that is unmerged, 'GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF' is called with 1
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parameter, <path>.
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parameter, <path>.
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Git specific extention to diff format
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What -p option produces is slightly different from the
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traditional diff format.
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(1) It is preceeded with a "git diff" header, that looks like
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this:
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diff --git a/file1 b/file2
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The a/ and b/ filenames are the same unless rename/copy is
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involved. Especially, even for a creation or a deletion,
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/dev/null is _not_ used in place of a/ or b/ filename.
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When rename/copy is involved, file1 and file2 shows the
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name of the source file of the rename/copy and the name of
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the file that rename/copy produces, respectively.
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(2) It is followed by extended header lines that are one or
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more of:
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old mode <mode>
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new mode <mode>
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deleted file mode <mode>
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new file mode <mode>
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copy from <path>
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copy to <path>
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rename from <path>
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rename to <path>
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similarity index <number>
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dissimilarity index <number>
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