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diff --git a/Documentation/diff-generate-patch.txt b/Documentation/diff-generate-patch.txt index 55f499a160..d2a7ff56e8 100644 --- a/Documentation/diff-generate-patch.txt +++ b/Documentation/diff-generate-patch.txt @@ -2,11 +2,11 @@ Generating patches with -p -------------------------- When "git-diff-index", "git-diff-tree", or "git-diff-files" are run -with a '-p' option, "git diff" without the '--raw' option, or +with a `-p` option, "git diff" without the `--raw` option, or "git log" with the "-p" option, they do not produce the output described above; instead they produce a patch file. You can customize the creation of such patches via the -GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF and the GIT_DIFF_OPTS environment variables. +`GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF` and the `GIT_DIFF_OPTS` environment variables. What the -p option produces is slightly different from the traditional diff format: @@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ combined diff format Any diff-generating command can take the `-c` or `--cc` option to produce a 'combined diff' when showing a merge. This is the default format when showing merges with linkgit:git-diff[1] or -linkgit:git-show[1]. Note also that you can give the `-m' option to any +linkgit:git-show[1]. Note also that you can give the `-m` option to any of these commands to force generation of diffs with individual parents of a merge. @@ -114,11 +114,11 @@ index fabadb8,cc95eb0..4866510 ------------ 1. It is preceded with a "git diff" header, that looks like - this (when '-c' option is used): + this (when `-c` option is used): diff --combined file + -or like this (when '--cc' option is used): +or like this (when `--cc` option is used): diff --cc file @@ -174,7 +174,7 @@ added, from the point of view of that parent). In the above example output, the function signature was changed from both files (hence two `-` removals from both file1 and file2, plus `++` to mean one line that was added does not appear -in either file1 nor file2). Also eight other lines are the same +in either file1 or file2). Also eight other lines are the same from file1 but do not appear in file2 (hence prefixed with `+`). When shown by `git diff-tree -c`, it compares the parents of a |