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From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
To: Yann Dirson <dirson@bertin.fr>
Cc: "Santi Béjar" <santi@agolina.net>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 2/4] Documentation: diff can compare blobs
Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2010 11:04:08 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101011160408.GC25842@burratino> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101011160224.GA25842@burratino>

Meanwhile, there is no plumbing command to compare two blobs.
Strange.

Reported-by: Yann Dirson <dirson@bertin.fr>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
---
 Documentation/git-diff.txt |    5 +++--
 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/git-diff.txt b/Documentation/git-diff.txt
index 481a33c..db2c6c2 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-diff.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-diff.txt
@@ -64,8 +64,9 @@ forced by --no-index.
 
 Just in case if you are doing something exotic, it should be
 noted that all of the <commit> in the above description, except
-for the last two forms that use ".." notations, can be any
-<tree-ish>.
+in the last two forms that use ".." notations, can be any
+<tree>.  The third form ('git diff <commit> <commit>') can also
+be used to compare two <blob> objects.
 
 For a more complete list of ways to spell <commit>, see
 "SPECIFYING REVISIONS" section in linkgit:gitrevisions[7].
-- 
1.7.2.3

  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-10-11 16:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-10-11 13:03 Undocumented git-diff syntax Yann Dirson
2010-10-11 13:59 ` Santi Béjar
2010-10-11 14:17   ` Yann Dirson
2010-10-11 14:52     ` Santi Béjar
2010-10-11 16:02     ` [PATCH 0/4] " Jonathan Nieder
2010-10-11 16:03       ` [PATCH 1/5] Documentation: gitrevisions is in section 7 Jonathan Nieder
2010-10-11 20:49         ` Sverre Rabbelier
2010-10-11 16:04       ` Jonathan Nieder [this message]
2010-10-11 16:05       ` [PATCH 3/4] Documentation: expand 'git diff' SEE ALSO section Jonathan Nieder
2010-10-11 16:06       ` [PATCH 4/4] Documentation: update "git diff --no-index" description Jonathan Nieder
2010-10-11 16:07       ` [RFC/PATCH 5/4] Documentation: flesh out diff --no-index description Jonathan Nieder
2010-10-13 22:40         ` Junio C Hamano
2010-10-11 18:52       ` [PATCH 0/4] Re: Undocumented git-diff syntax Yann Dirson
2010-10-11 20:56       ` Sverre Rabbelier
2010-10-11 16:57     ` Jakub Narebski

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