X-Git-Url: https://git.octo.it/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=Documentation%2Fgit-diff-tree.txt;h=f7e8ff2968d6c443220ea9e9667255ebdd29b602;hb=86f363791b281fb916414a89282b2e67cdaa36c0;hp=816c592ebf13ddd18fdf4ab7f0dbb9c8311be2e1;hpb=a61399b5fb7f4b04d60f42b253cb0f684bcdd286;p=git.git

diff --git a/Documentation/git-diff-tree.txt b/Documentation/git-diff-tree.txt
index 816c592e..f7e8ff29 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
 ----
@@ -9,7 +8,10 @@ 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
 -----------
@@ -30,10 +32,13 @@ include::diff-options.txt[]
 <path>...::
 	If provided, the results are limited to a subset of files
 	matching one of these prefix strings.
-	ie file matches `/^<pattern1>|<pattern2>|.../`
+	i.e., file matches `/^<pattern1>|<pattern2>|.../`
 	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.
 
@@ -49,18 +54,19 @@ include::diff-options.txt[]
 +
 When a single commit is given on one line of such input, it compares
 the commit with its parents.  The following flags further affects its
-behaviour.  This does not apply to the case where two <tree-ish>
+behavior.  This does not apply to the case where two <tree-ish>
 separated with a single space are given.
 
 -m::
 	By default, "git-diff-tree --stdin" does not show
 	differences for merge commits.  With this flag, it shows
-	differences to that commit from all of its parents.
+	differences to that commit from all of its parents. See
+	also '-c'.
 
 -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::
@@ -72,6 +78,34 @@ 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::
+	This flag changes 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 is what the '-m' option does).
+	Furthermore, it lists only files which were modified
+	from all parents.
+
+--cc::
+	This flag changes the way a merge commit patch is displayed,
+	in a similar way to the '-c' option. It implies the '-c'
+	and '-p' options and further compresses the patch output
+	by omitting 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 in any other "empty diff" case.
+
+--always::
+	Show the commit itself and the commit log message even
+	if the diff itself is empty.
+
 
 Limiting Output
 ---------------
@@ -101,16 +135,18 @@ An example of normal usage is:
 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-objects" 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).
 
@@ -129,5 +165,5 @@ 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