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| author |  Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> | 2005-11-03 13:52:44 -0800 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> | 2005-11-03 14:55:48 -0800 |
| commit | 36f05ef485d023eda3bf750e7b207d07d5feb39d (patch) | |
| tree | 79675c76927c9bac7463b74c3a23242609cf02b5 /Documentation | |
| parent | Illustration: "Fundamental Git Index Operations" (diff) | |
| download | tgif-36f05ef485d023eda3bf750e7b207d07d5feb39d.tar.xz | |
Illustration: "Git Diff Types"
Jon Loeliger's ASCII art in the Tutorial.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
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diff --git a/Documentation/tutorial.txt b/Documentation/tutorial.txt index 20a4cb1df4..214673db06 100644 --- a/Documentation/tutorial.txt +++ b/Documentation/tutorial.txt @@ -455,6 +455,41 @@ the same diff that we've already seen several times, we can now do (again, `-p` means to show the difference as a human-readable patch), and it will show what the last commit (in `HEAD`) actually changed. +[NOTE] +============ +Here is an ASCII art by Jon Loeliger that illustrates how +various diff-\* commands compare things. + + diff-tree + +----+ + | | + | | + V V + +-----------+ + | Object DB | + | Backing | + | Store | + +-----------+ + ^ ^ + | | + | | diff-index --cached + | | + diff-index | V + | +-----------+ + | | Index | + | | "cache" | + | +-----------+ + | ^ + | | + | | diff-files + | | + V V + +-----------+ + | Working | + | Directory | + +-----------+ +============ + More interestingly, you can also give `git-diff-tree` the `-v` flag, which tells it to also show the commit message and author and date of the commit, and you can tell it to show a whole series of diffs. |