git-commit-vandalism/Documentation/git-diff-helper.txt
Junio C Hamano 915838c3cb [PATCH] Diff-helper update
This patch adds a framework and a stub implementation of rename
detection to diff-helper program.

The current stub code is just enough to detect pure renames in
diff-tree output and not fancier.  The plan is perhaps to use
the same delta code when Nico's delta storage patch is merged
for similarity evaluation purposes.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-18 11:16:24 -07:00

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git-diff-helper(1)
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v0.1, May 2005
NAME
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git-diff-helper - Generates patch format output for git-diff-*
SYNOPSIS
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'git-diff-helper' [-z] [-R] [-r]
DESCRIPTION
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Reads output from "git-diff-cache", "git-diff-tree" and "git-diff-files" and
generates patch format output.
OPTIONS
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-z::
\0 line termination on input
-R::
Output diff in reverse. This is useful for displaying output from
"git-diff-cache" which always compares tree with cache or working
file. E.g.
git-diff-cache <tree> | git-diff-helper -R file.c
would show a diff to bring the working file back to what
is in the <tree>.
-r::
Detect renames.
See Also
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The section on generating patches in link:git-diff-cache.html[git-diff-cache]
Author
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Written by Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Documentation
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Documentation by David Greaves, Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
GIT
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Part of the link:git.html[git] suite