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authorYann Dirson <ydirson@altern.org>2008-11-02 14:37:28 +0100
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2008-11-02 15:57:10 -0800
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Add reference for status letters in documentation.
Also fix error in diff_filepair::status documentation, and point to the in-code reference as well as the doc. Signed-off-by: Yann Dirson <ydirson@altern.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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@@ -46,6 +46,22 @@ That is, from the left to the right:
. path for "dst"; only exists for C or R.
. an LF or a NUL when '-z' option is used, to terminate the record.
+Possible status letters are:
+
+- A: addition of a file
+- C: copy of a file into a new one
+- D: deletion of a file
+- M: modification of the contents or mode of a file
+- R: renaming of a file
+- T: change in the type of the file
+- U: file is unmerged (you must complete the merge before it can
+be committed)
+- X: "unknown" change type (most probably a bug, please report it)
+
+Status letters C and M are always followed by a score (denoting the
+percentage of similarity between the source and target of the move or
+copy), and are the only ones to be so.
+
<sha1> is shown as all 0's if a file is new on the filesystem
and it is out of sync with the index.