fix diff-tree --stdin documentation
Long time ago, the feature of "diff-tree --stdin" to take a commit and its parents on one line was broken, and did not support the common: git rev-list --parents $commits... -- $paths... | git diff-tree --stdin -v -p usage pattern by Porcelains properly. For diff-tree to talk sensibly about commits, it needs to see commits, not just trees; the code was fixed to take list of commits on the standard input in 1.2.0. However we left the documentation stale for a long time, until Karl Hasselström finally noticed it very recently. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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--stdin::
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When '--stdin' is specified, the command does not take
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<tree-ish> arguments from the command line. Instead, it
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reads either one <commit> or a pair of <tree-ish>
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reads either one <commit> or a list of <commit>
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separated with a single space from its standard input.
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When a single commit is given on one line of such input, it compares
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the commit with its parents. The following flags further affects its
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behavior. This does not apply to the case where two <tree-ish>
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separated with a single space are given.
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behavior. The remaining commits, when given, are used as if they are
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parents of the first commit.
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-m::
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By default, "git-diff-tree --stdin" does not show
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