From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Sat, 24 Oct 2009 09:51:57 GMT
Subject: Re: confusion with git diff-tree output
Message-ID: <20091024095156.GA9865@sigio.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <7vvdi58fhw.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 11:36:59PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> >> 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.
> >
> > It's due to hysterical raisins:
> >
> >   http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/54078
> 
> Just to make sure, the Porcelain "diff" does recurse even with --raw 
> and "diff-tree" doesn't for historical reasons, right?

Yes, that's right (and yes, I just checked it to be double sure).

-Peff