From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sat, 24 Oct 2009 06:36:59 GMT
Subject: Re: confusion with git diff-tree output
Message-ID: <7vvdi58fhw.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20091023005426.GA2431@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 06:23:08PM -0400, David Roundy wrote:
>
>> You're right.  I figured I must be overlooking something obvious, and
>> that was it.  What surprised me was that -p implies -r, which is not
>> documented.  Since the -p output was recursive, I incorrectly presumed
>> that this was the default.
>
> It's due to hysterical raisins:
>
>   http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/54078

Just to make sure, the Porcelain "diff" does recurse even with --raw 
and "diff-tree" doesn't for historical reasons, right?