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  git-diff.txt: add section "output format" describing the diff formats
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The output format from "git-diff-index", "git-diff-tree" and
"git-diff-files" are very similar.
The output format from "git-diff-index", "git-diff-tree",
"git-diff-files" and "git diff --raw" are very similar.
These commands all compare two sets of things; what is
compared differs:
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diff format for merges
----------------------
"git-diff-tree" and "git-diff-files" can take '-c' or '--cc' option
"git-diff-tree", "git-diff-files" and "git-diff --raw"
can take '-c' or '--cc' option
to generate diff output also for merge commits. The output differs
from the format described above in the following way:
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--------------------------
When "git-diff-index", "git-diff-tree", or "git-diff-files" are run
with a '-p' option, they do not produce the output described above;
instead they produce a patch file. You can customize the creation
of such patches via the GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF and the GIT_DIFF_OPTS
environment variables.
with a '-p' option, or "git diff" without the '--raw' option, they
do not produce the output described above; instead they produce a
patch file. You can customize the creation of such patches via the
GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF and the GIT_DIFF_OPTS environment variables.
What the -p option produces is slightly different from the traditional
diff format.
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combined diff format
--------------------
git-diff-tree and git-diff-files can take '-c' or '--cc' option
to produce 'combined diff', which looks like this:
"git-diff-tree", "git-diff-files" and "git-diff" can take '-c' or
'--cc' option to produce 'combined diff', which looks like this:
------------
diff --combined describe.c

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the diff to the named paths (you can give directory
names and get diff for all files under them).
Output format
-------------
include::diff-format.txt[]
EXAMPLES
--------