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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/diff-format.txt | 16 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | diffcore.h | 2 |
2 files changed, 17 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/diff-format.txt b/Documentation/diff-format.txt index 400cbb3b1c..aafd3a3941 100644 --- a/Documentation/diff-format.txt +++ b/Documentation/diff-format.txt @@ -46,6 +46,22 @@ That is, from the left to the right: . path for "dst"; only exists for C or R. . an LF or a NUL when '-z' option is used, to terminate the record. +Possible status letters are: + +- A: addition of a file +- C: copy of a file into a new one +- D: deletion of a file +- M: modification of the contents or mode of a file +- R: renaming of a file +- T: change in the type of the file +- U: file is unmerged (you must complete the merge before it can +be committed) +- X: "unknown" change type (most probably a bug, please report it) + +Status letters C and M are always followed by a score (denoting the +percentage of similarity between the source and target of the move or +copy), and are the only ones to be so. + <sha1> is shown as all 0's if a file is new on the filesystem and it is out of sync with the index. diff --git a/diffcore.h b/diffcore.h index 8ae35785fd..1ebfdae8b8 100644 --- a/diffcore.h +++ b/diffcore.h @@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ struct diff_filepair { struct diff_filespec *one; struct diff_filespec *two; unsigned short int score; - char status; /* M C R N D U (see Documentation/diff-format.txt) */ + char status; /* M C R A D U etc. (see Documentation/diff-format.txt or DIFF_STATUS_* in diff.h) */ unsigned broken_pair : 1; unsigned renamed_pair : 1; unsigned is_unmerged : 1; |