diff format documentation: describe raw combined diff format Add description of raw combined diff format to diff-formats.txt, as "diff format for merges" section, before "Generating patches..." section. Signed-off-by: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
diff --git a/Documentation/diff-format.txt b/Documentation/diff-format.txt index 378e72f..e38a1f1 100644 --- a/Documentation/diff-format.txt +++ b/Documentation/diff-format.txt
@@ -59,6 +59,28 @@ in pathnames are represented as `\t`, `\n`, and `\\`, respectively. +diff format for merges +---------------------- + +"git-diff-tree" and "git-diff-files" can take '-c' or '--cc' option +to generate diff output also for merge commits. The output differs +from the format described above in the following way: + +. there is a colon for each parent +. there are more "src" modes and "src" sha1 +. status is concatenated status characters for each parent +. no optional "score" number +. single path, only for "dst" + +Example: + +------------------------------------------------ +::100644 100644 100644 fabadb8... cc95eb0... 4866510... MM describe.c +------------------------------------------------ + +Note that 'combined diff' lists only files which were modified from +all parents. + Generating patches with -p --------------------------