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[PATCH 2/4] Documentation: diff can compare blobs

From
Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date
Oct 11, 2010, 16:04 UTC
Message-ID
<20101011160408.GC25842@burratino>
In-Reply-To
<20101011160224.GA25842@burratino>

Meanwhile, there is no plumbing command to compare two blobs. Strange.

Reported-by: Yann Dirson <dirson@bertin.fr>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
---
 Documentation/git-diff.txt |    5 +++--
 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-diff.txt b/Documentation/git-diff.txt
index 481a33c..db2c6c2 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-diff.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-diff.txt
@@ -64,8 +64,9 @@ forced by --no-index.
 
 Just in case if you are doing something exotic, it should be
 noted that all of the <commit> in the above description, except
-for the last two forms that use ".." notations, can be any
-<tree-ish>.
+in the last two forms that use ".." notations, can be any
+<tree>.  The third form ('git diff <commit> <commit>') can also
+be used to compare two <blob> objects.
 
 For a more complete list of ways to spell <commit>, see
 "SPECIFYING REVISIONS" section in linkgit:gitrevisions[7].
-- 
1.7.2.3
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Message 8 of 15 in “Undocumented git-diff syntax”
  1. Yann DirsonOct 11, 2010
  2. Santi BéjarOct 11, 2010
  3. Yann DirsonOct 11, 2010
  4. Santi BéjarOct 11, 2010
  5. 0/4 Re: Undocumented git-diff syntaxJonathan Nieder, Oct 11, 2010
  6. 1/5 Documentation: gitrevisions is in section 7Jonathan Nieder, Oct 11, 2010
  7. Sverre RabbelierOct 11, 2010
  8. 2/4 Documentation: diff can compare blobsJonathan Nieder, Oct 11, 2010
  9. 3/4 Documentation: expand 'git diff' SEE ALSO sectionJonathan Nieder, Oct 11, 2010
  10. 4/4 Documentation: update "git diff --no-index" descriptionJonathan Nieder, Oct 11, 2010
  11. 5/4 Documentation: flesh out diff --no-index descriptionJonathan Nieder, Oct 11, 2010
  12. Junio C HamanoOct 13, 2010
  13. Yann DirsonOct 11, 2010
  14. Sverre RabbelierOct 11, 2010
  15. Jakub NarebskiOct 11, 2010

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