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| author |  Adam Monsen <haircut@gmail.com> | 2011-03-08 12:51:37 -0800 |
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| committer |  Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2011-03-08 14:44:07 -0800 |
| commit | e0adb84cc65a399629fbb1b2d0e5764330bf4f39 (patch) | |
| tree | 586b4313dbc490d6e1a5eeba8b0435b4897e48ec /Documentation/diff-generate-patch.txt | |
| parent | rev-list-options.txt: typo fix (diff) | |
| download | tgif-e0adb84cc65a399629fbb1b2d0e5764330bf4f39.tar.xz | |
diff format documentation: clarify --cc and -c
The description was unclear if -c or --cc was the default (--cc is for
some commands), and incorrectly implied that the default applies to
all the diff generating commands.
Most importantly, "log" does not default to "--cc" (it defaults to
"--no-merges") and "log -p" obeys the user's wish to see non-combined
format. Only "diff" (during merge and three-blob comparison) and
"show" use --cc as the default.
Signed-off-by: Adam Monsen <haircut@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/diff-generate-patch.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/diff-generate-patch.txt | 11 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/diff-generate-patch.txt b/Documentation/diff-generate-patch.txt index 3ac2beac62..c57460c03d 100644 --- a/Documentation/diff-generate-patch.txt +++ b/Documentation/diff-generate-patch.txt @@ -74,10 +74,13 @@ separate lines indicate the old and the new mode. combined diff format -------------------- -"git-diff-tree", "git-diff-files" and "git-diff" can take '-c' or -'--cc' option to produce 'combined diff'. For showing a merge commit -with "git log -p", this is the default format; you can force showing -full diff with the '-m' option. +Any diff-generating command can take the `-c` or `--cc` option to +produce a 'combined diff' when showing a merge. This is the default +format when showing merges with linkgit:git-diff[1] or +linkgit:git-show[1]. Note also that you can give the `-m' option to any +of these commands to force generation of diffs with individual parents +of a merge. + A 'combined diff' format looks like this: ------------ |