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Re: misleading diff-hunk header

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Aug 25, 2012, 04:29 UTC
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Tim Chase <git@tim.thechases.com> writes:
> If the documented purpose of "diff -p" (and by proxy
> diff.{type}.xfuncname) is to show the name of the *function*
> containing the changed lines,....

Yeah, the documentation is misleading, but I do not offhand think of a better phrasing. Perhaps you could send in a patch to improve it.

How does GNU manual explain the option?
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