From: David Roundy <roundyd@physics.oregonstate.edu>
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2009 22:23:08 GMT
Subject: Re: confusion with git diff-tree output
Message-ID: <117f2cc80910211523m5c1399aej594398fb6597e5de@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20091021195103.01cef9c4@perceptron>

You're right.  I figured I must be overlooking something obvious, and
that was it.  What surprised me was that -p implies -r, which is not
documented.  Since the -p output was recursive, I incorrectly presumed
that this was the default.

David

On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 1:51 PM, Jan Krüger <jk@jk.gs> wrote:
> Tree objects are recursively nested, i.e.
>
>> 66b67ea1763799c0b2ac01f6803177ca870f6544 M    Iolaus
>
> is a reference to another tree object... and since a file in that
> subtree changed, a new tree object that contains a different file
> record is now referenced as "Iolaus".
>
> By default git diff-tree doesn't recurse, but you can use -r for that.
> Which is documented, I might add. ;)