git-diff(1) broken

git-diff(1) broken

[Robert Watson]

Hi,

It looks like the man page of git-diff(1) is very broken.

Thanks,
Robertoo

Re: git-diff(1) broken

[Robert Watson]

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On 9/22/05, Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz> wrote:
> Dear diary, on Thu, Sep 22, 2005 at 12:02:00PM CEST, I got a letter
> where Robert Watson <robert.oo.watson@gmail.com> told me that...
> > Hi,
>
> Hi,
>
> > It looks like the man page of git-diff(1) is very broken.
>
> it was not very informative in 0.99.6, but it looks fine in the latest
> GIT. Could you please be more specific about what is broken on it?
>

Please see attached git-diff.1 file.  The table is not shown correctly.

Robertoo

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.TH "GIT-DIFF" 1 "" "" ""
.SH NAME
git-diff \- Show changes between commits, commit and working tree, etc.
.SH "SYNOPSIS"


\fIgit\-diff\fR [ \-\-diff\-options ] <ent>{0,2} [<path>...]

.SH "DESCRIPTION"


Show changes between two ents, an ent and the working tree, an ent and the index file, or the index file and the working tree\&. The combination of what is compared with what is determined by the number of ents given to the command\&.

    Number of ents
    
    Options
    
    What's Compared
    
    Underlying command
    
    0
    
    \-
    
    index file and working tree
    
    git\-diff\-files
    
    1
    
    \-\-cached
    
    ent and index file
    
    git\-diff\-index
    
    1
    
    \-
    
    ent and working tree
    
    git\-diff\-index
    
    2
    
    \-
    
    two ents
    
    git\-diff\-tree
    
.SH "OPTIONS"

.TP
\-\-diff\-options
 \fI\-\-diff\-options\fR are passed to the git\-diff\-files, git\-diff\-index, and git\-diff\-tree commands\&. See the documentation for these commands for description\&.

.TP
<path>...
The <path> arguments are also passed to git\-diff\-* commands\&.

.SH "AUTHOR"


Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl\&.org>

.SH "DOCUMENTATION"


Documentation by Junio C Hamano and the git\-list <git@vger\&.kernel\&.org>\&.

.SH "GIT"


Part of the \fBgit\fR(7) suite