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authorJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2019-03-07 00:59:54 (GMT)
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2019-03-07 00:59:54 (GMT)
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Merge branch 'en/combined-all-paths'
Output from "diff --cc" did not show the original paths when the merge involved renames. A new option adds the paths in the original trees to the output. * en/combined-all-paths: log,diff-tree: add --combined-all-paths option
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/diff-format.txt20
-rw-r--r--Documentation/diff-generate-patch.txt13
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-diff-tree.txt11
-rw-r--r--Documentation/rev-list-options.txt7
4 files changed, 46 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/diff-format.txt b/Documentation/diff-format.txt
index cdcc17f..4d846d7 100644
--- a/Documentation/diff-format.txt
+++ b/Documentation/diff-format.txt
@@ -95,12 +95,26 @@ from the format described above in the following way:
. there are more "src" modes and "src" sha1
. status is concatenated status characters for each parent
. no optional "score" number
-. single path, only for "dst"
+. tab-separated pathname(s) of the file
-Example:
+For `-c` and `--cc`, only the destination or final path is shown even
+if the file was renamed on any side of history. With
+`--combined-all-paths`, the name of the path in each parent is shown
+followed by the name of the path in the merge commit.
+
+Examples for `-c` and `--cc` without `--combined-all-paths`:
+------------------------------------------------
+::100644 100644 100644 fabadb8 cc95eb0 4866510 MM desc.c
+::100755 100755 100755 52b7a2d 6d1ac04 d2ac7d7 RM bar.sh
+::100644 100644 100644 e07d6c5 9042e82 ee91881 RR phooey.c
+------------------------------------------------
+
+Examples when `--combined-all-paths` added to either `-c` or `--cc`:
------------------------------------------------
-::100644 100644 100644 fabadb8 cc95eb0 4866510 MM describe.c
+::100644 100644 100644 fabadb8 cc95eb0 4866510 MM desc.c desc.c desc.c
+::100755 100755 100755 52b7a2d 6d1ac04 d2ac7d7 RM foo.sh bar.sh bar.sh
+::100644 100644 100644 e07d6c5 9042e82 ee91881 RR fooey.c fuey.c phooey.c
------------------------------------------------
Note that 'combined diff' lists only files which were modified from
diff --git a/Documentation/diff-generate-patch.txt b/Documentation/diff-generate-patch.txt
index 231105c..f10ca41 100644
--- a/Documentation/diff-generate-patch.txt
+++ b/Documentation/diff-generate-patch.txt
@@ -143,6 +143,19 @@ copying detection) are designed to work with diff of two
Similar to two-line header for traditional 'unified' diff
format, `/dev/null` is used to signal created or deleted
files.
++
+However, if the --combined-all-paths option is provided, instead of a
+two-line from-file/to-file you get a N+1 line from-file/to-file header,
+where N is the number of parents in the merge commit
+
+ --- a/file
+ --- a/file
+ --- a/file
+ +++ b/file
++
+This extended format can be useful if rename or copy detection is
+active, to allow you to see the original name of the file in different
+parents.
4. Chunk header format is modified to prevent people from
accidentally feeding it to `patch -p1`. Combined diff format
diff --git a/Documentation/git-diff-tree.txt b/Documentation/git-diff-tree.txt
index 43daa7c..24f32e8 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-diff-tree.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-diff-tree.txt
@@ -10,8 +10,8 @@ SYNOPSIS
--------
[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>...]
+ [-t] [-r] [-c | --cc] [--combined-all-paths] [--root]
+ [<common diff options>] <tree-ish> [<tree-ish>] [<path>...]
DESCRIPTION
-----------
@@ -105,6 +105,13 @@ include::pretty-options.txt[]
itself and the commit log message is not shown, just like in any other
"empty diff" case.
+--combined-all-paths::
+ This flag causes combined diffs (used for merge commits) to
+ list the name of the file from all parents. It thus only has
+ effect when -c or --cc are specified, and is likely only
+ useful if filename changes are detected (i.e. when either
+ rename or copy detection have been requested).
+
--always::
Show the commit itself and the commit log message even
if the diff itself is empty.
diff --git a/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt b/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt
index cad711c..ca959a7 100644
--- a/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt
+++ b/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt
@@ -960,6 +960,13 @@ options may be given. See linkgit:git-diff-files[1] for more options.
the parents have only two variants and the merge result picks
one of them without modification.
+--combined-all-paths::
+ This flag causes combined diffs (used for merge commits) to
+ list the name of the file from all parents. It thus only has
+ effect when -c or --cc are specified, and is likely only
+ useful if filename changes are detected (i.e. when either
+ rename or copy detection have been requested).
+
-m::
This flag makes the merge commits show the full diff like
regular commits; for each merge parent, a separate log entry