From: Jan Krüger <jk@jk.gs>
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2009 17:51:03 GMT
Subject: Re: confusion with git diff-tree output
Message-ID: <20091021195103.01cef9c4@perceptron>
In-Reply-To: <117f2cc80910211043q3a92a7b6o15464cc049ee33dc@mail.gmail.com>

> David Roundy <roundyd@physics.oregonstate.edu> wrote:

> I've been struggling with trying to figure out how to make diff-tree
> output the actual files changed.  Below is the output when I run
> diff-tree on a given commit.  It reports that the directory is
> modified, rather than that a single file within that directory is
> modified.

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. ;)

Jan