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diff --git a/Documentation/diff-format.txt b/Documentation/diff-format.txt index 174d63a..ed4ebcb 100644 --- a/Documentation/diff-format.txt +++ b/Documentation/diff-format.txt @@ -212,9 +212,9 @@ copying detection) are designed to work with diff of two --- a/file +++ b/file + -Contrary to two-line header for traditional 'unified' diff -format, and similar to filenames in ordinary "diff header", -/dev/null is not used for creation or deletion. +Similar to two-line header for traditional 'unified' diff +format, `/dev/null` is used to signal created or deleted +files. 4. Chunk header format is modified to prevent people from accidentally feeding it to `patch -p1`. Combined diff format |