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| author | Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> | 2005-05-23 21:55:33 (GMT) |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org> | 2005-05-23 23:23:10 (GMT) |
| commit | b6d8f309d9bbd8193d9b73eb41c6fcdaa8001298 (patch) | |
| tree | 8c15995be05c108072397d41d0454d6737509f7b /Documentation/diff-format.txt | |
| parent | a4acb0eb140d80141ac564a09219a10c3ab76449 (diff) | |
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[PATCH] diff-raw format update take #2.
This changes the diff-raw format again, following the mailing
list discussion. The new format explicitly expresses which one
is a rename and which one is a copy.
The documentation and tests are updated to match this change.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/diff-format.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/diff-format.txt | 42 |
1 files changed, 24 insertions, 18 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/diff-format.txt b/Documentation/diff-format.txt index 7e9a515..f85a605 100644 --- a/Documentation/diff-format.txt +++ b/Documentation/diff-format.txt @@ -19,28 +19,34 @@ git-diff-files [<pattern>...]:: An output line is formatted this way: - ':' <mode> ' ' <mode> ' ' <sha1> ' ' <sha1> I <path> I <path> L - -By default, I and L are '\t' and '\n' respectively. When '-z' -flag is in effect, both I and L are '\0'. - -In each <mode>, <sha1> and <path> pair, left hand side describes -the left hand side of what is being compared (<tree-ish> in -git-diff-cache, <tree-ish-1> in git-diff-tree, cache contents in -git-diff-files). Non-existence is shown by having 000000 in the -<mode> column. That is, 000000 appears as the first <mode> for -newly created files, and as the second <mode> for deleted files. - -Usually two <path> are the same. When rename/copy detection is -used, however, an "create" and another "delete" records can be -merged into a single record that has two <path>, old name and -new name. +in-place edit :100644 100644 bcd1234... 0123456... M file0 +copy-edit :100644 100644 abcd123... 1234567... C68 file1 file2 +rename-edit :100644 100644 abcd123... 1234567... R86 file1 file3 +create :000000 100644 0000000... 1234567... N file4 +delete :100644 000000 1234567... 0000000... D file5 +unmerged :000000 000000 0000000... 0000000... U file6 + +That is, from the left to the right: + + (1) a colon. + (2) mode for "src"; 000000 if creation or unmerged. + (3) a space. + (4) mode for "dst"; 000000 if deletion or unmerged. + (5) a space. + (6) sha1 for "src"; 0{40} if creation or unmerged. + (7) a space. + (8) sha1 for "dst"; 0{40} if creation, unmerged or "look at work tree". + (9) status, followed by similarlity index number only for C and R. + (10) a tab or a NUL when '-z' option is used. + (11) path for "src" + (12) a tab or a NUL when '-z' option is used; only exists for C or R. + (13) path for "dst"; only exists for C or R. + (14) an LF or a NUL when '-z' option is used, to terminate the record. <sha1> is shown as all 0's if new is a file on the filesystem and it is out of sync with the cache. Example: - :100644 100644 5be4a4...... 000000...... file.c file.c - + :100644 100644 5be4a4...... 000000...... M file.c Generating patches with -p -------------------------- |