Re: [PATCH] Documentation/git-diff: remove -r from --name-status example

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Jul 29, 2007, 02:06 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.0.999.0707281905050.3442@woody.linux-foundation.org>
In-Reply-To: <20070729002427.GA1566@coredump.intra.peff.net>

On Sat, 28 Jul 2007, Jeff King wrote:

> 
> The '-r' now seems to be superfluous.

For diffing against (or using) the index, the "-r" is superfluous.

Why? Because the index is always the *full* list of files. It's "flat".

However, when you diff two trees, the -r makes a difference.

So I think you'd find a difference if you actually diffed two commits with "git diff tree2..tree2".

		Linus