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[PATCH] Documentation/diff-generate-patch.txt the truth about "diff --git"

From
jidanni@jidanni.org <jidanni@jidanni.org>
Date
Jan 6, 2009, 04:01 UTC
Message-ID
<1231214477-15208-1-git-send-email-jidanni@jidanni.org>
Signed-off-by: jidanni <jidanni@jidanni.org>
---
 Documentation/diff-generate-patch.txt |    1 +
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/diff-generate-patch.txt b/Documentation/diff-generate-patch.txt
index 0f25ba7..dfc186c 100644
--- a/Documentation/diff-generate-patch.txt
+++ b/Documentation/diff-generate-patch.txt
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ diff format.
 The `a/` and `b/` filenames are the same unless rename/copy is
 involved.  Especially, even for a creation or a deletion,
 `/dev/null` is _not_ used in place of `a/` or `b/` filenames.
+(Diff(1) does not actually have a --git option.)
 +
 When rename/copy is involved, `file1` and `file2` show the
 name of the source file of the rename/copy and the name of
-- 
1.6.0.6
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