Autogenerated HTML docs for v1.5.3.5-529-ge3d6d
diff --git a/diff-format.txt b/diff-format.txt index 0015032..9709c35 100644 --- a/diff-format.txt +++ b/diff-format.txt
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ -The output format from "git-diff-index", "git-diff-tree" and -"git-diff-files" are very similar. +The 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 compared differs: @@ -62,7 +62,8 @@ diff format for merges ---------------------- -"git-diff-tree" and "git-diff-files" can take '-c' or '--cc' option +"git-diff-tree", "git-diff-files" and "git-diff --raw" +can take '-c' or '--cc' option to generate diff output also for merge commits. The output differs from the format described above in the following way: @@ -86,10 +87,10 @@ -------------------------- When "git-diff-index", "git-diff-tree", or "git-diff-files" are run -with a '-p' option, they do not produce the output described above; -instead they produce a patch file. You can customize the creation -of such patches via the GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF and the GIT_DIFF_OPTS -environment variables. +with a '-p' option, or "git diff" without the '--raw' option, they +do not produce the output described above; instead they produce a +patch file. You can customize the creation of such patches via the +GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF and the GIT_DIFF_OPTS environment variables. What the -p option produces is slightly different from the traditional diff format. @@ -137,8 +138,8 @@ combined diff format -------------------- -git-diff-tree and git-diff-files can take '-c' or '--cc' option -to produce 'combined diff', which looks like this: +"git-diff-tree", "git-diff-files" and "git-diff" can take '-c' or +'--cc' option to produce 'combined diff', which looks like this: ------------ diff --combined describe.c
