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git diff-index --raw HEAD and git diff --raw HEAD output the same thing?

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Ping Yin <pkufranky@gmail.com>
Date
Mar 1, 2008, 13:10 UTC
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<46dff0320803010510q67bc4101k9f85c71e5d20b4@mail.gmail.com>
Does these two commands output the same content except displaying format?
Follwoing is my test

$ git diff-index --raw HEAD :160000 000000 ad1e416e87dc02617de68c41bb18e5abf0e24729 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000 D WordBreak :160000 160000 34f279b1662a6bef6a8fdea1827bbdbd80f12444 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000 M commonmake :160000 100644 c517f783d9efb5a8d24f80fb67f644a39afec2a6 e69de29bb2d1d6434b8b29ae775ad8c2e48c5391 T util

$ git diff --raw HEAD
:160000 000000 ad1e416e87dc02617de68c41bb18e5abf0e24729 0000000... D
 WordBreak
:160000 160000 34f279b1662a6bef6a8fdea1827bbdbd80f12444
c1f46b3f10cc041e196c388490ddb049dacc7dc0 M      commonmake
:160000 100644 c517f783d9efb5a8d24f80fb67f644a39afec2a6 e69de29... T    util

Strange things is this line :160000 160000 34f279b1662a6bef6a8fdea1827bbdbd80f12444 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000 M commonmake

why mod is 160000 while sha1 is 0000...
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