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diff --git a/Documentation/diff-format.txt b/Documentation/diff-format.txt index 9e64539975..7e9a515ad7 100644 --- a/Documentation/diff-format.txt +++ b/Documentation/diff-format.txt @@ -16,25 +16,30 @@ git-diff-tree [-r] <tree-ish-1> <tree-ish-2> [<pattern>...]:: git-diff-files [<pattern>...]:: compares the cache and the files on the filesystem. -The following desription uses "old" and "new" to mean those -compared entities. -For files in old but not in new (i.e. removed): +An output line is formatted this way: - -<mode> \t <type> \t <object> \t <path> + ':' <mode> ' ' <mode> ' ' <sha1> ' ' <sha1> I <path> I <path> L -For files not in old but in new (i.e. added): +By default, I and L are '\t' and '\n' respectively. When '-z' +flag is in effect, both I and L are '\0'. - +<mode> \t <type> \t <object> \t <path> +In each <mode>, <sha1> and <path> pair, left hand side describes +the left hand side of what is being compared (<tree-ish> in +git-diff-cache, <tree-ish-1> in git-diff-tree, cache contents in +git-diff-files). Non-existence is shown by having 000000 in the +<mode> column. That is, 000000 appears as the first <mode> for +newly created files, and as the second <mode> for deleted files. -For files that differ: +Usually two <path> are the same. When rename/copy detection is +used, however, an "create" and another "delete" records can be +merged into a single record that has two <path>, old name and +new name. - *<old-mode>-><new-mode> \t <type> \t <old-sha1>-><new-sha1> \t <path> +<sha1> is shown as all 0's if new is a file on the filesystem +and it is out of sync with the cache. Example: -<new-sha1> is shown as all 0's if new is a file on the -filesystem and it is out of sync with the cache. Example: - - *100644->100644 blob 5be4a4.......->000000....... file.c + :100644 100644 5be4a4...... 000000...... file.c file.c Generating patches with -p |