From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2012 04:29:56 GMT
Subject: Re: misleading diff-hunk header
Message-ID: <7va9xjy4or.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <50381F52.9030007@tim.thechases.com>

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?