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Re: [PATCH] Documentation: describe git extended diff headers.

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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date
Jun 5, 2005, 22:11 UTC
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On Sun, 5 Jun 2005, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
> The documentation failed to describe "diff --git" extended diff
> headers, so add some.

You document the "rename" header as being "rename from/to", which is sensible, but doesn't match reality. diff.c has "rename old/new". I found that out the hard way when doing git-apply ;)

I'd almost prefer fixing diff.c (and now apply.c). Comments?
		Linus
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Message 2 of 25 in “Documentation: describe git extended diff headers.”
  1. Documentation: describe git extended diff headers.Junio C Hamano, Jun 5, 2005
  2. Linus TorvaldsJun 5, 2005
  3. Fix diff.c to match rename extended header to the document.Junio C Hamano, Jun 5, 2005
  4. Fix apply.c to match rename extended header to the document.Junio C Hamano, Jun 5, 2005
  5. Linus TorvaldsJun 5, 2005
  6. Last mile for 1.0Junio C Hamano, Jun 5, 2005
  7. Junio C HamanoJun 5, 2005
  8. McMullan, JasonJun 6, 2005
  9. Linus TorvaldsJun 6, 2005
  10. git-whatchanged vs "cvs annotate"Junio C Hamano, Jun 6, 2005
  11. Thomas GlanzmannJun 6, 2005
  12. Linus TorvaldsJun 6, 2005
  13. Junio C HamanoJun 6, 2005
  14. Linus TorvaldsJun 6, 2005
  15. Thomas GlanzmannJun 6, 2005
  16. Linus TorvaldsJun 6, 2005
  17. Thomas GlanzmannJun 6, 2005
  18. Junio C HamanoJun 6, 2005
  19. Linus TorvaldsJun 6, 2005
  20. Junio C HamanoJun 6, 2005
  21. Linus TorvaldsJun 6, 2005
  22. Linus TorvaldsJun 6, 2005
  23. 3-way read-tree case matrix.Junio C Hamano, Jun 8, 2005
  24. Junio C HamanoJun 8, 2005
  25. Tests: read-tree -m test updates.Junio C Hamano, Jun 8, 2005

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