Re: confusion with git diff-tree output

[David Roundy <roundyd@physics.oregonstate.edu>]

You're right.  I figured I must be overlooking something obvious, and
that was it.  What surprised me was that -p implies -r, which is not
documented.  Since the -p output was recursive, I incorrectly presumed
that this was the default.

David

On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 1:51 PM, Jan Krüger <jk@jk.gs> wrote:
> Tree objects are recursively nested, i.e.
>
>> 66b67ea1763799c0b2ac01f6803177ca870f6544 M    Iolaus
>
> is a reference to another tree object... and since a file in that
> subtree changed, a new tree object that contains a different file
> record is now referenced as "Iolaus".
>
> By default git diff-tree doesn't recurse, but you can use -r for that.
> Which is documented, I might add. ;)