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authorLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2011-04-28 14:11:47 -0700
committerLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2011-04-28 14:11:47 -0700
commit50d3062ab2cea4e999b8f3bafd211ff348bca600 (patch)
tree26cfdd46c59963b0301bd57d492a73f0abadbb5f /Documentation
parentMerge branch 'jc/rename-degrade-cc-to-c' (diff)
parentgit diff -D: omit the preimage of deletes (diff)
downloadtgif-50d3062ab2cea4e999b8f3bafd211ff348bca600.tar.xz
Merge branch 'jc/diff-irreversible-delete'
* jc/diff-irreversible-delete: git diff -D: omit the preimage of deletes
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@@ -263,6 +263,19 @@ endif::git-log[]
projects, so use it with caution. Giving more than one
`-C` option has the same effect.
+-D::
+--irreversible-delete::
+ Omit the preimage for deletes, i.e. print only the header but not
+ the diff between the preimage and `/dev/null`. The resulting patch
+ is not meant to be applied with `patch` nor `git apply`; this is
+ solely for people who want to just concentrate on reviewing the
+ text after the change. In addition, the output obviously lack
+ enough information to apply such a patch in reverse, even manually,
+ hence the name of the option.
++
+When used together with `-B`, omit also the preimage in the deletion part
+of a delete/create pair.
+
-l<num>::
The `-M` and `-C` options require O(n^2) processing time where n
is the number of potential rename/copy targets. This