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authorLibravatar Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>2005-06-19 13:14:53 -0700
committerLibravatar Linus Torvalds <torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org>2005-06-19 20:13:18 -0700
commit232b75ab3d60475b19270be022a966772c25c84b (patch)
tree399cf4604d7737ec89fa646b8aff6c65d3409dcd /Documentation/git-diff-tree.txt
parent[PATCH] Make -C less eager. (diff)
downloadtgif-232b75ab3d60475b19270be022a966772c25c84b.tar.xz
[PATCH] Update diff documentation.
This updates diff documentation to discuss --find-copies-harder, and adds descriptions for options that were not described earlier. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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diff --git a/Documentation/git-diff-tree.txt b/Documentation/git-diff-tree.txt
index 762546bfe9..ab0ba4fb17 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-diff-tree.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-diff-tree.txt
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ git-diff-tree - Compares the content and mode of blobs found via two tree object
SYNOPSIS
--------
-'git-diff-tree' [-p] [-r] [-z] [--stdin] [-B] [-M] [-R] [-C] [-O<orderfile>] [-S<string>] [--pickaxe-all] [-m] [-s] [-v] [-t] <tree-ish> <tree-ish> [<pattern>]\*
+'git-diff-tree' [-p] [-r] [-z] [--stdin] [-m] [-s] [-v] [-t] [-R] [-B] [-M] [-C] [--find-copies-harder] [-O<orderfile>] [-S<string>] [--pickaxe-all] <tree-ish> <tree-ish> [<path>...]
DESCRIPTION
-----------
@@ -22,11 +22,11 @@ OPTIONS
<tree-ish>::
The id of a tree object.
-<pattern>::
+<path>...::
If provided, the results are limited to a subset of files
matching one of these prefix strings.
ie file matches `/^<pattern1>|<pattern2>|.../`
- Note that pattern does not provide any wildcard or regexp
+ Note that this parameter does not provide any wildcard or regexp
features.
-p::
@@ -42,6 +42,14 @@ OPTIONS
-C::
Detect copies as well as renames.
+--find-copies-harder::
+ By default, -C option finds copies only if the original
+ file of the copy was modified in the same changeset for
+ performance reasons. This flag makes the command
+ inspect unmodified files as candidates for the source of
+ copy. This is a very expensive operation for large
+ projects, so use it with caution.
+
-R::
Swap two input trees.
@@ -96,6 +104,11 @@ separated with a single space are given.
This flag causes "git-diff-tree --stdin" to also show
the commit message before the differences.
+--pretty[=(raw|medium|short)]::
+ This is used to control "pretty printing" format of the
+ commit message. Without "=<style>", it defaults to
+ medium.
+
Limiting Output
---------------