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Documentation/git-diff: remove -r from --name-status example

Calling 'git-diff --name-status' will recursively show any
changes already, and it has for quite some time (at least as
far back as v1.4.1).

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Jeff King 18 years ago committed by Junio C Hamano
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@ -102,17 +102,14 @@ Limiting the diff output:: @@ -102,17 +102,14 @@ Limiting the diff output::
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$ git diff --diff-filter=MRC <1>
$ git diff --name-status -r <2>
$ git diff --name-status <2>
$ git diff arch/i386 include/asm-i386 <3>
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<1> show only modification, rename and copy, but not addition
nor deletion.
<2> show only names and the nature of change, but not actual
diff output. --name-status disables usual patch generation
which in turn also disables recursive behavior, so without -r
you would only see the directory name if there is a change in a
file in a subdirectory.
diff output.
<3> limit diff output to named subtrees.

Munging the diff output::

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