Re: [PATCH v4] log,diff-tree: add --combined-all-names option

>
> Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > diff --git a/Documentation/diff-generate-patch.txt b/Documentation/diff-generate-patch.txt
> > index 231105cff4..69cb3b0349 100644
> > --- a/Documentation/diff-generate-patch.txt
> > +++ b/Documentation/diff-generate-patch.txt
> > @@ -144,6 +144,19 @@ Similar to two-line header for traditional 'unified' diff
> >  format, `/dev/null` is used to signal created or deleted
> >  files.
> >
> > +However, if the --combined-all-paths option is provided, instead of a
> > +two-line from-file/to-file you get a N+1 line from-file/to-file header,
> > +where N is the number of parents in the merge commit
> > +
> > +       --- a/file
> > +       --- a/file
> > +       --- a/file
> > +       +++ b/file
> > ++
> > +This extended format can be useful if rename or copy detection is
> > +active, to allow you to see the original name of the file in different
> > +parents.
> > +
> >  4.   Chunk header format is modified to prevent people from
> >       accidentally feeding it to `patch -p1`. Combined diff format
> >       was created for review of merge commit changes, and was not
>
> You need to replace the blank line before the new paragraph that
> begins with "However" with a line with a single "+" on it, to tell
> the formatter that the new text is still part of the third item in
> the list.