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Re: Output from git diff

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Jul 29, 2009, 18:26 UTC
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David Kågedal <davidk@lysator.liu.se> writes:
> And what should the documentation really say?

"git diff" unlike "git diff-<whatiscompared>" is a Porcelain, to produce human-readable output, and defaults to the abbreviated form.

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