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diff --git a/Documentation/git-range-diff.txt b/Documentation/git-range-diff.txt index f693930fdb..8a6ea2c6c5 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-range-diff.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-range-diff.txt @@ -78,6 +78,23 @@ between patches", i.e. to compare the author, commit message and diff of corresponding old/new commits. There is currently no means to tweak the diff options passed to `git log` when generating those patches. +OUTPUT STABILITY +---------------- + +The output of the `range-diff` command is subject to change. It is +intended to be human-readable porcelain output, not something that can +be used across versions of Git to get a textually stable `range-diff` +(as opposed to something like the `--stable` option to +linkgit:git-patch-id[1]). There's also no equivalent of +linkgit:git-apply[1] for `range-diff`, the output is not intended to +be machine-readable. + +This is particularly true when passing in diff options. Currently some +options like `--stat` can, as an emergent effect, produce output +that's quite useless in the context of `range-diff`. Future versions +of `range-diff` may learn to interpret such options in a manner +specific to `range-diff` (e.g. for `--stat` producing human-readable +output which summarizes how the diffstat changed). CONFIGURATION ------------- |