X-Git-Url: https://git.octo.it/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=Documentation%2Fgit-diff-tree.txt;h=9153e4cf2a1020dc9a3b5792ff3f64f7efd9f42c;hb=4c2e98d6ce47aa9fcc1598c68e630f371cd4f8cb;hp=b2095cb04959ab2c21ee1b51ba0e7b169bd5b53d;hpb=80bd6f3064a6009cd18a4dab9ce6d29681cec4af;p=git.git

diff --git a/Documentation/git-diff-tree.txt b/Documentation/git-diff-tree.txt
index b2095cb0..9153e4cf 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-diff-tree.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-diff-tree.txt
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 git-diff-tree(1)
 ================
-v0.1, May 2005
 
 NAME
 ----
@@ -9,12 +8,18 @@ git-diff-tree - Compares the content and mode of blobs found via two tree object
 
 SYNOPSIS
 --------
-'git-diff-tree' [--stdin] [-m] [-s] [-v] [--pretty] [-t] [<common diff options>] <tree-ish> <tree-ish> [<path>...]
+[verse]
+'git-diff-tree' [--stdin] [-m] [-s] [-v] [--no-commit-id] [--pretty]
+	      [-t] [-r] [-c | --cc] [--root] [<common diff options>]
+	      <tree-ish> [<tree-ish>] [<path>...]
 
 DESCRIPTION
 -----------
 Compares the content and mode of the blobs found via two tree objects.
 
+If there is only one <tree-ish> given, the commit is compared with its parents
+(see --stdin below).
+
 Note that "git-diff-tree" can use the tree encapsulated in a commit object.
 
 OPTIONS
@@ -31,6 +36,9 @@ include::diff-options.txt[]
 	Note that this parameter does not provide any wildcard or regexp
 	features.
 
+-r::
+        recurse into sub-trees
+
 -t::
 	show tree entry itself as well as subtrees.  Implies -r.
 
@@ -57,7 +65,7 @@ separated with a single space are given.
 -s::
 	By default, "git-diff-tree --stdin" shows differences,
 	either in machine-readable form (without '-p') or in patch
-	form (with '-p').  This output can be supressed.  It is
+	form (with '-p').  This output can be suppressed.  It is
 	only useful with '-v' flag.
 
 -v::
@@ -69,6 +77,28 @@ separated with a single space are given.
 	commit message.  Without "=<style>", it defaults to
 	medium.
 
+--no-commit-id::
+	git-diff-tree outputs a line with the commit ID when
+	applicable.  This flag suppressed the commit ID output.
+
+-c,--cc::
+	These flags change the way a merge commit is displayed
+	(which means it is useful only when the command is given
+	one <tree-ish>, or '--stdin').  It shows the differences
+	from each of the parents to the merge result
+	simultaneously, instead of showing pairwise diff between
+	a parent and the result one at a time, which '-m' option
+	output does.  '--cc' further compresses the output by
+	omiting hunks that show differences from only one
+	parent, or show the same change from all but one parent
+	for an Octopus merge.  When this optimization makes all
+	hunks disappear, the commit itself and the commit log
+	message is not shown, just like any other "empty diff" cases.
+
+--always::
+	Show the commit itself and the commit log message even
+	if the diff itself is empty.
+
 
 Limiting Output
 ---------------
@@ -86,28 +116,30 @@ Or if you are searching for what changed in just `kernel/sched.c`, just do
 and it will ignore all differences to other files.
 
 The pattern is always the prefix, and is matched exactly.  There are no
-wildcards.  Even stricter, it has to match complete path comonent.
+wildcards.  Even stricter, it has to match a complete path component.
 I.e. "foo" does not pick up `foobar.h`.  "foo" does match `foo/bar.h`
 so it can be used to name subdirectories.
 
 An example of normal usage is:
 
   torvalds@ppc970:~/git> git-diff-tree 5319e4......
-  *100664->100664 blob    ac348b.......->a01513.......      git-fsck-cache.c
+  *100664->100664 blob    ac348b.......->a01513.......      git-fsck-objects.c
 
 which tells you that the last commit changed just one file (it's from
 this one:
 
-  commit 3c6f7ca19ad4043e9e72fa94106f352897e651a8
-  tree 5319e4d609cdd282069cc4dce33c1db559539b03
-  parent b4e628ea30d5ab3606119d2ea5caeab141d38df7
-  author Linus Torvalds <torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org> Sat Apr 9 12:02:30 2005
-  committer Linus Torvalds <torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org> Sat Apr 9 12:02:30 2005
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+commit 3c6f7ca19ad4043e9e72fa94106f352897e651a8
+tree 5319e4d609cdd282069cc4dce33c1db559539b03
+parent b4e628ea30d5ab3606119d2ea5caeab141d38df7
+author Linus Torvalds <torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org> Sat Apr 9 12:02:30 2005
+committer Linus Torvalds <torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org> Sat Apr 9 12:02:30 2005
 
-  Make "git-fsck-cache" print out all the root commits it finds.
+Make "git-fsck-objects" print out all the root commits it finds.
 
-  Once I do the reference tracking, I'll also make it print out all the
-  HEAD commits it finds, which is even more interesting.
+Once I do the reference tracking, I'll also make it print out all the
+HEAD commits it finds, which is even more interesting.
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 in case you care).
 
@@ -126,5 +158,5 @@ Documentation by David Greaves, Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel
 
 GIT
 ---
-Part of the link:git.html[git] suite
+Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite