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user-manual: mention "..." in "Generating diffs", etc.

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We should mention the use of the "..." syntax for git-diff here.  The
note about the difference between diff and the combined output of
git-format-patch then no longer fits so well, so remove it.  Add a
reference to the git-format-patch[1] manpage.

Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
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@ -658,16 +658,23 @@ gitlink:git-diff[1]:
$ git diff master..test
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Sometimes what you want instead is a set of patches:
That will produce the diff between the tips of the two branches. If
you'd prefer to find the diff from their common ancestor to test, you
can use three dots instead of two:
-------------------------------------------------
$ git diff master...test
-------------------------------------------------
Sometimes what you want instead is a set of patches; for this you can
use gitlink:git-format-patch[1]:
-------------------------------------------------
$ git format-patch master..test
-------------------------------------------------
will generate a file with a patch for each commit reachable from test
but not from master. Note that if master also has commits which are
not reachable from test, then the combined result of these patches
will not be the same as the diff produced by the git-diff example.
but not from master.
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