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authorLibravatar Jeff King <peff@peff.net>2007-07-28 20:24:27 -0400
committerLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2007-07-28 18:44:52 -0700
commit90ae710e0b642b177d44df4528966c7ae37ebf5f (patch)
tree4016d315ae232bb51a69ef1f20ef261ddbbcc934 /Documentation
parentgit-stash apply --index: optimize postprocessing (diff)
downloadtgif-90ae710e0b642b177d44df4528966c7ae37ebf5f.tar.xz
Documentation/git-diff: remove -r from --name-status example
Calling 'git-diff --name-status' will recursively show any changes already, and it has for quite some time (at least as far back as v1.4.1). Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-diff.txt7
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-diff.txt b/Documentation/git-diff.txt
index 639b969315..b1f5e7f93f 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-diff.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-diff.txt
@@ -102,17 +102,14 @@ Limiting the diff output::
+
------------
$ git diff --diff-filter=MRC <1>
-$ git diff --name-status -r <2>
+$ git diff --name-status <2>
$ git diff arch/i386 include/asm-i386 <3>
------------
+
<1> show only modification, rename and copy, but not addition
nor deletion.
<2> show only names and the nature of change, but not actual
-diff output. --name-status disables usual patch generation
-which in turn also disables recursive behavior, so without -r
-you would only see the directory name if there is a change in a
-file in a subdirectory.
+diff output.
<3> limit diff output to named subtrees.
Munging the diff output::