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diff --git a/Documentation/diff-format.txt b/Documentation/diff-format.txt index aafd3a3941..b71712473e 100644 --- a/Documentation/diff-format.txt +++ b/Documentation/diff-format.txt @@ -1,4 +1,7 @@ -The output format from "git-diff-index", "git-diff-tree", +Raw output format +----------------- + +The raw output format from "git-diff-index", "git-diff-tree", "git-diff-files" and "git diff --raw" are very similar. These commands all compare two sets of things; what is @@ -16,6 +19,9 @@ git-diff-tree [-r] <tree-ish-1> <tree-ish-2> [<pattern>...]:: git-diff-files [<pattern>...]:: compares the index and the files on the filesystem. +The "git-diff-tree" command begins its ouput by printing the hash of +what is being compared. After that, all the commands print one output +line per changed file. An output line is formatted this way: @@ -58,7 +64,7 @@ Possible status letters are: 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 +Status letters C and R 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. |