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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/git-diff-tree.txt')
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1 files changed, 9 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-diff-tree.txt b/Documentation/git-diff-tree.txt index 58d02c6a20..5d23985b57 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-diff-tree.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-diff-tree.txt @@ -49,13 +49,13 @@ include::diff-options.txt[] --stdin:: When '--stdin' is specified, the command does not take <tree-ish> arguments from the command line. Instead, it - reads either one <commit> or a pair of <tree-ish> + reads either one <commit> or a list of <commit> separated with a single space from its standard input. + When a single commit is given on one line of such input, it compares the commit with its parents. The following flags further affects its -behavior. This does not apply to the case where two <tree-ish> -separated with a single space are given. +behavior. The remaining commits, when given, are used as if they are +parents of the first commit. -m:: By default, "git-diff-tree --stdin" does not show @@ -93,11 +93,11 @@ include::pretty-options.txt[] This flag changes the way a merge commit patch is displayed, in a similar way to the '-c' option. It implies the '-c' and '-p' options and further compresses the patch output - by omitting hunks that show differences from only one - parent, or show the same change from all but one parent - for an Octopus merge. When this optimization makes all - hunks disappear, the commit itself and the commit log - message is not shown, just like in any other "empty diff" case. + by omitting uninteresting hunks whose the contents in the parents + have only two variants and the merge result picks one of them + without modification. When all hunks are uninteresting, the commit + itself and the commit log message is not shown, just like in any other + "empty diff" case. --always:: Show the commit itself and the commit log message even @@ -165,4 +165,4 @@ Documentation by David Greaves, Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel GIT --- -Part of the linkgit:git[7] suite +Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite |