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From: Adam Monsen <haircut@gmail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>, Junio Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
	Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>,
	Adam Monsen <haircut@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH v4] Documentation fix: git log -p does not imply -c.
Date: Mon,  7 Mar 2011 16:49:38 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1299545378-22036-1-git-send-email-haircut@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vsjuyzckd.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

Relates to the thread with subject "frustrated forensics: hard to find
diff that undid a fix" on the git mailing list.

    http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/168481

I don't wish for anyone to repeat my bungled forensics episode.
Hopefully this will help others git along happily.

See also:

    http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/89415

Signed-off-by: Adam Monsen <haircut@gmail.com>
---

Junio wrote:
> s/produced/produce/, I think.

Ah, indeed. Fixed, thanks.

I also sidestepped the difference between merge commits and conflicts by
changing the wording slightly.

Your changes to the "Note" seemed helpful, I put them in. Thanks!

 Documentation/diff-generate-patch.txt |   11 +++++++----
 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/diff-generate-patch.txt b/Documentation/diff-generate-patch.txt
index 3ac2bea..c57460c 100644
--- a/Documentation/diff-generate-patch.txt
+++ b/Documentation/diff-generate-patch.txt
@@ -74,10 +74,13 @@ separate lines indicate the old and the new mode.
 combined diff format
 --------------------
 
-"git-diff-tree", "git-diff-files" and "git-diff" can take '-c' or
-'--cc' option to produce 'combined diff'.  For showing a merge commit
-with "git log -p", this is the default format; you can force showing
-full diff with the '-m' option.
+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
+of these commands to force generation of diffs with individual parents
+of a merge.
+
 A 'combined diff' format looks like this:
 
 ------------
-- 
1.7.2.3

  reply	other threads:[~2011-03-08  0:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-03-05  6:20 frustrated forensics: hard to find diff that undid a fix Adam Monsen
2011-03-05 10:00 ` Jonathan del Strother
2011-03-05 11:33 ` Jakub Narebski
2011-03-05 12:51   ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-03-05 13:48     ` Jeff King
2011-03-05 14:34   ` Adam Monsen
2011-03-05 19:56     ` [PATCH 0/2] improve combined diff documentation Adam Monsen
2011-03-05 19:56     ` [PATCH 1/2] documentation fix: git log -p does not imply -c Adam Monsen
2011-03-07  0:36       ` Junio C Hamano
2011-03-07 15:47         ` Jeff King
2011-03-07 18:37           ` Junio C Hamano
2011-03-07 19:12             ` Jeff King
2011-03-07 21:57               ` [PATCH v3] Documentation " Adam Monsen
2011-03-08  0:21                 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-03-08  0:49                   ` Adam Monsen [this message]
2011-03-08 19:43                     ` [PATCH v4] " Junio C Hamano
2011-03-08 20:46                       ` Adam Monsen
2011-03-09  0:58                         ` Junio C Hamano
2011-03-09 21:25                           ` Adam Monsen
2011-03-09 21:27                             ` [PATCH] SubmittingPatches: clean up commit message tips Adam Monsen
2011-03-09 22:20                               ` Junio C Hamano
2011-03-08 20:51                       ` [PATCH v5] diff format documentation: clarify --cc and -c Adam Monsen
2011-03-08 21:03                       ` [PATCH v6] " Adam Monsen
2011-03-08  1:19                   ` [PATCH v3] Documentation fix: git log -p does not imply -c Jeff King
2011-03-05 19:56     ` [PATCH 2/2] English grammar fixes for combined diff doc Adam Monsen
2011-03-05 14:29 ` frustrated forensics: hard to find diff that undid a fix Martin von Zweigbergk

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