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| author |  Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com> | 2020-09-14 11:36:52 -0700 |
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| committer |  Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2020-09-21 13:37:03 -0700 |
| commit | 3d09c22869a7bd47f1683031937af0ed93b2fa3b (patch) | |
| tree | 045ced9ffc692b665a5eec38611e9f75755399e4 /Documentation/git-diff.txt | |
| parent | builtin/diff-index: learn --merge-base (diff) | |
| download | tgif-3d09c22869a7bd47f1683031937af0ed93b2fa3b.tar.xz | |
builtin/diff-tree: learn --merge-base
The previous commit introduced ---merge-base a way to take the diff
between the working tree or index and the merge base between an arbitrary
commit and HEAD. It makes sense to extend this option to support the
case where two commits are given too and behave in a manner identical to
`git diff A...B`.
Introduce the --merge-base flag as an alternative to triple-dot
notation. Thus, we would be able to write the above as
`git diff --merge-base A B`.
Signed-off-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/git-diff.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-diff.txt | 8 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-diff.txt b/Documentation/git-diff.txt index 762ee6d074..7f4c8a8ce7 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-diff.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-diff.txt @@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ SYNOPSIS [verse] 'git diff' [<options>] [<commit>] [--] [<path>...] 'git diff' [<options>] --cached [--merge-base] [<commit>] [--] [<path>...] -'git diff' [<options>] <commit> [<commit>...] <commit> [--] [<path>...] +'git diff' [<options>] [--merge-base] <commit> [<commit>...] <commit> [--] [<path>...] 'git diff' [<options>] <commit>...<commit> [--] [<path>...] 'git diff' [<options>] <blob> <blob> 'git diff' [<options>] --no-index [--] <path> <path> @@ -62,10 +62,14 @@ of <commit> and HEAD. `git diff --merge-base A` is equivalent to branch name to compare with the tip of a different branch. -'git diff' [<options>] <commit> <commit> [--] [<path>...]:: +'git diff' [<options>] [--merge-base] <commit> <commit> [--] [<path>...]:: This is to view the changes between two arbitrary <commit>. ++ +If --merge-base is given, use the merge base of the two commits for the +"before" side. `git diff --merge-base A B` is equivalent to +`git diff $(git merge-base A B) B`. 'git diff' [<options>] <commit> <commit>... <commit> [--] [<path>...]:: |